Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Carlin critiques American execution of ideas, suggesting incompetence or recklessness plagues both good and bad concepts equally.
- In plain terms
- Americans tend to ruin ideas regardless of their quality.
- What can you take from it?
- Execution matters more than the initial concept.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does good intent guarantee good outcomes?
- How do we measure idea execution?
Another view
It overlooks successful innovations that did not fail.
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