Quotes About Knowledge

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

Before you take the first dose of any medication your doctor prescribes, you should make it your business to find out more about the drug than the doctor himself knows.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.

I believe that the data will set you free. At the end of the day, it's about how do you turn those pieces of information into insights that will improve business.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.