"Human capital, unlike most other assets does not depreciate over time.
Like good wine, it actually improves
with age...." Frederick F. Reichheld
Translation
The value of customers, employees and investors.
Quotation: 2
"Knowledge has become the preeminent economic resource -
more important than raw material; more important, often, than money." Thomas A. Stewart
Translation
Value can give you more than money can buy e.g. loyalty, commitment, and purpose
Quotation: 3
"The essence of management is to make knowledge productive" Peter F. Drucker
Translation
Value gathered in business from using what you have.
Quotation: 4
"Increasingly, the true investment in the knowledge society is not in machines and tools, it is in the knowledge of the knowledge worker. Without it, the machines, no matter how advanced and sophisticated are unproductive." Peter F. Drucker
Translation
More value is to be gained by managing the knowledge of the people of an organization
Quotation: 5
"The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius." Sid Caesar
Translation
Value is achieved by expanding on what is presently available.
Quotation: 6
"....in fact almost all companies, including heavy industry pay more for information than they do to attract capital." Karl-Erik Sveiby
Translation
There is more value to be gained from knowledge than from fixed assets.
Quotation: 7
"The inevitable metaphor is the iceberg. Above the surface, the financial and physical resources, glittering in the sun, visible, sometimes even awesome. Beneath, unseen, something vastly larger, whose importance everyone recognizes but whose contour no one knows." Leif Edvinsson
Translation
This is the value seen in how your business stands today.
Quotation: 8
"Organizations must also invest in their infrastructure - people, systems and procedures - if they are to achieve ambitious long-term financial growth objectives." Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Translation
Value is in gaining more in the long run from what you have.
