Quotes

Quotes on:

Intellectual Capital
Knowledge
Knowledge Management
Sharing Knowledge
Collaboration
Innovation
Learning Organization
Change

INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL

"The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it."

Andrew Carnegie

KNOWLEDGE

"Power is knowledge +
the ability to apply it.”

Victor Newman

"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."

Peter Drucker

"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Knowledge is the fundamental factor -- the major enabler -- of enterprise performance."

Karl M. Wiig

"Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production."

Alfred Marshall

"The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge."

Peter Drucker

"Knowledge is powerful medicine."

Eli Lilly & Co.

"I wish we knew what we know at HP."

Lew Platt

"Knowledge gives choice."

Peter Drucker

"Knowledge is the asset; innovation is the process."

Debra M. Amidon

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

Margaret Fuller

"Knowledge must come through action."

Sophocles

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."

Aristotle Onassis

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

"Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it."

Etienne Wenger

"In an industry with its entire foundation built upon R&D, I can’t think of anything more compelling than a solid KM strategy. It’s what will differentiate the winners from the losers in both the short-term and the long-term."

Claire Hogikyan

SHARING KNOWLEDGE

"Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something,
or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes."

Peter Senge

COLLABORATION

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

Henry Ford

INNOVATION

"Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it."

Tom Peters

LEARNING ORGANIZATION

"To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations."

Don Tapscott

CHANGE

"Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life."

Alvin Toffler

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Charles Darwin