who said knowledge is power
Did You Fall For this Big Lie? I get concerned sometimes when I see people, especially those who read one too many real estate investing articles, believing that “knowledge is power”. The truth is- the world is full of educated “failures”, is it not? If knowledge were power, we’d all be taking orders from professors, librarians would run governments, and you would welcome the door-to-door Encyclopedia salesman warmly into your home. And everyone who’d ever read a bunch of real estate investing articles would be a real estate mogul multimillionaire. That’s just not the way it is, though, is it? No, knowledge is not power. Not in and of itself, anyway. Applied knowledge is power. It’s not what you ‘know’ but what you DO with what you know. I write real estate investing articles in part because I’m driven to write, so I may as well provide some kind of benefit to somebody…by sharing what I know with others. And while I can attest from personal experience that you can gain invaluable knowl