[nine_k]

Since this is HN, there is a canonical translation of this, something like "Ideas are worth nothing, execution is everything".

[brobinson]

https://sive.rs/multiply

[hnbad]

Alternatively, combining this with the Great Man Theory of History also being wrong, we should drop the narrative that One Smart Guy will pick up One Great Idea and execute on it and recognize that human history is a story of social networks (no, not those).