Food for thought

I ran across this quote and it has stuck with me:

“You know the difference between a rich genius and a broke genius?” asked Clayton P. Knowles, Jr. Esq. as he peered over his half-moon readers, ” … a broke genius is two years ahead of his time, a rich genius is six months ahead of his time.”

I feel like I've been at both those junctions before - the trick is figuring out which idea is only 6 months ahead...