Quotes about Meritocracy
We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.
— Ben Carson
Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.
— Dorothy Sayers
I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.
— Bishop TD Jakes
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.
— Steve Jobs
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
— Thomas Jefferson
When you're the best in the world, you share the benefits (the income, the attention, the privileges, the respect) with just a handful of people or organizations or brands.
— Seth Godin
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
— Thomas Jefferson
The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.
— Will Smith
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.
— Ayn Rand
When you get rid of the estate tax," he said, "you're basically handing over command of the country's resources to people who didn't earn it. It's like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the children of all the winners at the 2000 Games.
— Barack Obama
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
The 'C' students run the world.
— Harry S. Truman