“Of central importance is the changing nature of competitive advantage - not based on market position, size and power as in times past, but on the incorporation of knowledge into all of an organization’s activities.”
—Leif Edvinsson, Swedish organisational theorist, known for his work on intellectual capital, in Corporate Longitude (2002)

“Knowledge is power.”
—Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher, statesman, essayist and scientist

“The single greatest challenge facing managers in the developed countries of the word is to raise the productivity of knowledge and service works.”
—Peter Drucker, 1909-2005, management guru, in the Harvard Business Review

“Companies ... have a hard time distinguishing between the cost of paying people and the value of investing in them.”

—Thomas A. Stewart, journalist and author, in Intellectual Capital (1997)

“In the digital age, knowledge is our lifeblood. And documents are the DNA of knowledge.”
—Rick Thoman, CEO, Xerox

“Connection, not collection: that’s the essence of knowledge management.”
—Tom Stewart, in The Wealth of Knowledge

“Knowledge is the new capital, but it’s worthless unless it’s accessible, communicated, and enhanced.”
—Hamilton Beazley, Strategic Leadership Group

“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, American industrialist, philanthropist

“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, creator of “The Learning Organisation”