Steve Jobs:
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
and separately:
You know, one of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left John Sculley got a very serious disease. It’s the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90 percent of the work. And if you just tell all these other people “here’s this great idea,” then of course they can go off and make it happen. And the problem with that is that there’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. […]
Via John Gruber.
