Quotes About Meritocracy

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

I think, so often, people go quick to that nepotism: 'I should be OK; my cousin's a producer. I can get into the movie.' How about audition, earn the part, and feel confident in knowing that the director felt you were the right person for the job versus hiring you because you know somebody?

The only fight worth fighting is to give all children equal opportunities regardless of race or gender, to judge individuals on their qualities and not their backgrounds. The victory won't come when nobody feels able to voice racist abuse, but when nobody thinks of doing so in the first place.

As melhores pessoas anseiam pela meritocracia, enquanto as pessoas medíocres tem medo dela.

Dont compromise temporary power, corrupt practice and mediocrity to meritocracy.

I think women should be paid the same as men. That's for sure. But what would you say to a woman coming in after you've been in the job for 15 years when they've done absolutely nothing to earn it? I don't think that's right.

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.

Political views in the hiring of career attorneys and staff should not be used. If I am asked to do that, I will not allow it.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

When I became a lawyer, no one asked me if I had spent some time in special ed. All they wanted was a good lawyer.

Private markets, where everyone has an equal opportunity is the only system that works.

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

You don't reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop those talents.

regardless of their LSAT scores

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications.

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.