Quotes about Knowledge

Without the wise counsel and insightful answers I've received to questions over those decades, I wonder where I would be today.

People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.

Education makes all the difference.

Ignorance means we didn't have the necessary information; stupidity means we had the necessary information but misused it.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.

Experience alone isn't a good enough teacher — evaluated experience is.

Every day I read, write, think, ask questions, and file what I learn. These are the five disciplines I practice to keep improving.

Remember that success is just 15 percent product knowledge and it's 85 percent people knowledge.

Before I discovered that helping myself made me more capable of helping others. That's one of the reasons I tell people that to add value to others, they must make themselves more valuable. You can't give something you don't have. You can't tell what you don't know. You can't share what you don't feel. No one gives out of a vacuum.

Knowledge alone is not power. Knowledge has value only in the hands of someone who has the ability to think well. People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.

If you are your only source of information and ideas, you're in trouble.

Charles "Tremendous" Jones said that the only difference between who you are today and the person you will be in five years will come from the books you read and the people you associate with.