The point is, you need to be more than an idea person to make money out of an invention or other innovation. Many small businesses have been doomed from the start because of false hopes. Those of you who already operate going firms have avoided wishful thinking in other business areas. You need to avoid it where innovation is concerned, too. It's better to have a fair new product and a great manager than the other way around.
Management is the most important element for success of an invention.
Edison wasn't only an inventing genius. He was also a promoting genius, a publicity genius, a capital-raising genius, a genius at seeing potential markets for inventions. A strong case could be made for saying he invented the electric light eight months before Edison. Few of us are Edisons. We may have brilliant product ideas, but we aren't usually knowledgeable, let alone brilliant, in all of the areas that need to be covered.