Quotes About Knowledge

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

The most successful people in life have the best information

If you are to be an effective nation builder, make it your business, to understand what is really happening in the economy, both nationally and globally.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

I've talked in front of ... like... a lot of big business people about stuff I didn't even know.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.