Business is creative. It's like painting. You start with a blank canvas. You can paint anything – anything – and there, right there, is your first problem. For every good painting you might turn out, there are a zillion bad paintings just aching to drip off your brush
Comment: This certainly rings true. I can't begin to count the number of times I've looked at a new business and thought to myself, "Whatever make those people think this business will work?" Invariably, it'll be just another of the "zillion bad paintings"
In the accompanying picture, a restaurant that is "open". Open at the time of the picture, but preceded by countless iterations of either "Closed", "Open", or just plain empty. Now (2015) it's been torn down. Just one of the zillion bad paintings.