Quotes About Meritocracy

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.

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

No one is guaranteed a job in this.

Even though America loves baseball, (American) football, and basketball, I feel it is the ultimate American game, really, because it's a pure meritocracy, and that is what America was designed as.

On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed.

For a long time, Americans have bought into the meritocracy, the American dream ideal. But when we watched banksters completely destroy our economy and get bailed out while ordinary homeowners were intentionally left to have their homes seized and lives destroyed, it kind of made people think.

I made Edgar Davids vice-captain. Nothing to do with colour, just because he was playing excellently and because he lives like an athlete.

Remember that the Communist Party is a meritocracy in China.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.

At Semco, you are what you do, not what or whom you control.

We're in favor of a hierarchy of self-interest and talent and opposed to the symbols of power and control that come with it.

Sufficiently generous and liberal to be open to all students of high caliber, even some who haven't benefited from genetic editing.

los hombres deberían ser ascendidos en virtud de su inteligencia, no de su cuna.

They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men were fighting wars, or going on crusades? There were women carpenters, dyers, tanners, bakers and brewers. Aliena herself was one of the most important merchants in the county.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.