Most successful businesses are not built on novel ideas — they're built by relentlessly applying proven smart ideas with better execution than the originators. Munger's frame inverts the default founder instinct: novelty without execution discipline produces nothing, while borrowed ideas executed relentlessly compound into empires. The asymmetry is brutal — copying is low-risk and high-leverage, inventing is high-risk and often low-yield.
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