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
It's not what you know but who you know, Shelby said, as she rummaged through a bag to find the business card he'd handed her.
[ 'nO ] (verb.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English cnAwan; akin to Old High German bichnAan to recognize, Latin gnoscere, noscere to come to know, Greek gignOskein.