English Explanatory Dictionary

it's not what you know but who you know

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb
  1. For success, and especially to obtain employment, one's knowledge and skills are less useful and less important than one's network of personal contacts.

Word forms

it's not what you know but who you know it's not what you know but whom you know

Related words

friends in high places
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