"Do you know why certain people succeed in business and you don't? Because they know something you don't: they have invested in knowledge"
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That word choice matters. “Invested” drags learning out of the self-help realm and into the language of capital allocation. Knowledge becomes an asset class: compounding, defensible, transferable. It’s also a subtle jab at the common small-business reflex to spend on tools, ads, or aesthetics while treating education as optional. The subtext is that the market doesn’t reward effort; it rewards informed decisions. If you keep making the same calls with the same data, you will keep getting the same outcomes.
There’s an implied hierarchy too: “certain people” have crossed a threshold into the knowers, the rest are outsiders. That can read as empowering (you can join them) or as a sales funnel (buy the course, get the secret). Contextually, it fits the post-1980s entrepreneurial mythos: the smartest investment isn’t a product or a pitch deck, it’s the operator upgrading their mental models faster than the competition.
Quote Details
| Topic | Business |
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| Source | INVICTO (invicto.com) landing page copy: “Master en Marca Personal y Redes Sociales / BLACKMAGIC” (accessed 2026) [translated] |
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"Do you know why certain people succeed in business and you don't? Because they know something you don't: they have invested in knowledge." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/do-you-know-why-certain-people-succeed-in-185559/. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.










