New ideas usually fail outright or require drastic changes before they can succeed.

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• The genuinely new idea in a product will probably fail; its job is to give people a reason to try the product at all. MPMark Pincus14 Jun 2026
• A good idea often fails to spread not for lack of merit but because no convenient way exists to implement it. SRScott Rao7 Jun 2026
• Most radical innovations fail, and even successful ones can take multiple decades to be accepted DNDon Normanc. 2013
• If a good idea is given to a mediocre team, they will fail, but a mediocre idea given to a great team will be fixed or replaced with something that works. BFBen Fryby 18 Sept 2008
• Old ideas can use new buildings, but new ideas must use old buildings JJJane Jacobsc. 1961

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