#business #innovation
# [[Epistemic status]]
#shower-thought
# Execution is more important than ideas
[[Steve Jobs]] success is largely due to his extraordinary execution.
>Vision without execution is hallucination. But I also came to believe that his ability to blur the line between reality and fantasy, just like his sfumato techniques for blurring the lines of a painting, was a key to his creativity. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovator.
>~ [[Walter Isaacson]] on [[Leonardo Da Vinci]]
>Ideas are cheap—what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea.
>~ [[Kaufman, Josh - The Personal MBA]]