Quotes About Meritocracy

Anybody could put their thoughts on a record out there. I think the world of reviews and opinions is now very much a meritocracy.

It is the American way to reward ability.

We'll always focus on creating a society where people who work hard and want to get on in life are rewarded.

I've never had a problem in a male-dominated sector. Results speak for themselves.

It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

Fine Gael is the party of opportunity, and no matter what background you come from, we give people a chance, and it gave me a chance.

People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain those at the bottom

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

With all the outlets, if you have a strong comedic voice, there's a venue to do your thing. It's a bit of a meritocracy, where the best stuff rises to the top.

You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring.

Il nostro movimento avrà questo compito: darà al singolo ciò di cui ha bisogno per vivere. Ciò troverà la sua espressione in una graduazione dei meriti tale da garantire, anche all'ultimo onesto lavoratore, una normale esistenza

The past four decades have seen one of the most depressing developments in the history of the meritocratic idea: the marriage between merit and money.

The Communist Party also claims that it is trying to promote political meritocracy: that is, a political system that aims to select and promote leaders on the basis of talents rather than on the basis of how many votes they can muster in an election.

In meritocratic society, people are individuals before they are anything else: masters of their fates and captains of their souls.32

They should live all together on an equal footing; merit to be their only road to eminence, and the disgrace of evil, and credit of worthy acts, their one measure of difference between man and man.

Acting can be a very cruel mistress. It's not a meritocracy. In other walks of life, by being good at what you do, you can achieve success. That isn't always the case in this business. Every actor knows that.

If you're going to put me in the booth, make sure it's because I'm good enough to be there.

The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

the land of opportunity, where credentials mattered less than demonstrated ability.