Having the two in will come in handy for you when going into an investment. You will be able to know the strategies, method and plans to employ for the business to grow. Not everyone that has money can prosper in business and not everyone that has ideas will still proper. Only a few people have prosper having just one of this two main things at hand when starting the investment. Most times, the already wealthy ones don’t need to have an idea about an investment, they just give the money to people that will make it happen, they do management and bring profits back to them. That’s the advantage of having money over anything today.
When there are two things that must be considered important to use in a particular investment or business that we have mastered, then we need to see which one is the most difficult to obtain so that we can prioritize the more difficult one first rather than the easier one. For example, money cannot be obtained more easily in every situation, so it would not be wrong for anyone to prioritize money before ideas, because ideas can be sought after we have enough money to run the investment or business we want.
Likewise, as you said, when we have enough money for business or other investments that require employees or other people as workers. I think that's also good as long as the size of the business is large and the profits are large enough so that it can pay several other employees that we use to run the business that we open. But we also have to have our own ideas for this, even though we are looking for employees who already have a lot of experience in business or have lots of ideas for running a business.
In my opinion, if we want to open a business, we should be ready for what will happen. Including with competition, with many rivals should not make us end the business we have. But we should have ideas on how the business we run can be superior to the others. Many ways can be done if our brains are running well, for example by marketing, or providing promos. However, I don't advise those who already have a business to end it because they lost the competition. Can that be called cowardice? It is very unfortunate if they have opened a business but closed it because they lost the competition. Basically, everyone wants success, and there are many things to go through to get to that point of success. If our business loses competitiveness, do we have to close it? I don't think so, if we have good thinking as much as possible we have to maintain the business we have and also have to develop the business that is running.
Efforts that are done with absolutely no way will not produce something good. Don't give up easily in doing something, just believe that effort will not betray the results. If only by losing competitiveness makes us close the business that has been run, I think it's better from the start not to open a business. People who open a business should have thought of everything from the beginning, about the benefits and risks involved.