[jasonlotito]

None of your examples detracts from what he is saying. Your suggestion comes down to level of success. Your examples only work if Henry Ford would be considered a failure if painted rocks didn't lead to as much success as cars did, despite the evidence that rocks, painted and unpainted, are still a market.

[ccc3]

He concludes his post by saying:

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

The only way that's true is if you consider success to be binary. Either you succeed or you fail. But level of success is important in terms of economic value and it is demonstrable that the idea is a factor in level of success.

[pwhelan]

Hyperbole is a literary tool to emphasize a point and should be put in context knowing this.

[zeynel1]

And also to execute you need to have an idea. Idea and execution are not independent. Idea has value by definition because it is the starting point.