Bill Gates Quotes

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

Organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible whatever the consequences

It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.

Every institution is perfectly capable of forgetting what it has learned in three years.

Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.

There must be consistency in direction.

Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"

Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw

A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.