There are Three Master Methods you can use to create profitable ideas.
Any one of these three master methods will make you richer...quicker!

Here they are:

1. DISCOVER something which always has existed but the existence of which has not been known before. (Examples: Newton's discovery of the Law of Gravity. Or the discovery of new elements, new substances, new methods based on new principles). This is the most difficult of the three master methods. It will make you famous but it probably will not make you as rich as the following easier master methods.

2. INVENT something which did not exist before. An invention is simply a new arrangement of things (which already are known) into something which is new and different. (Example: Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone.)
Of Course, your invention need not be anything as revolutionary and complex as the telephone or radio, or television, or gasoline engine, or any of the civilization changing inventions which first come to mind. Just look about you and you will realize that every product (and every method which produced that product) was an invention! Few, if any products remain in their original forms without invented changes of some kind by some invented method.

Everybody who will use his imagination and think creatively can invent many things! Mr. Edison, who was better at inventing than anyone, invented thousands of things. He only bothered to obtain patents on 1,093 of his many inventions.

But you do not have to be an Edison, or a Franklin, or a Steinmetz. Almost every product you see or use was invented by someone (since few products are used in their original forms).

Remember, all you need to do to invent something is to imagine a new arrangement of things which already exist which changes them into something which is new and different.

3. MODIFY something which already exists. You need not change it entirely into a different product, material, method or whatever - but into an improved one.
This is something you and everybody can and should do often!

You always should have - alert in the "back of you mind" - the urge to modify, change and improve something...everything! Because everything can be improved! It is just waiting for someone (you!) to SPARK AN IDEA for some modification and change which will improve it.