Ideas Are Just a Multiplier of Execution

I’ve linked to this short 2005 piece by Derek Sivers once before, but it’s worth a re-link today, in the context of assessing Steve Jobs’s accomplishments:

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

So succinct, so accurate, so widely misunderstood.

★ Tuesday, 15 November 2011