Quotes about Meritocracy

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.

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

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.

The 'C' students run the world.

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

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.

We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

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.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

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.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere