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Ideas matter like cash matters; only as an aid to execution. Any successful business of any sort will use many good ideas per year to succeed.

Edison's great idea wasn't the electric light; many knew that was a good idea. Edison's idea was the industrialization of research; solve the problem by brute force. He used many good ideas along the way, many not his own.



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