Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out. — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if… — Mildred Dresselhaus Copy Share Image
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you have to be a female in business, Silicon Valley is the best place because it's a meritocracy. It's not about… — Heidi Roizen Copy Share Image
I'm much more comfortable in a meritocracy and in reward for good work as opposed to a political environment, where I feel… — Desiree Rogers Copy Share Image
“Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment” — Christopher Hayes Copy Share Image
“It helps society more than you know when you make your voice heard; reviews force us to move towards a true meritocracy.” — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
You have the Republican Party, who see themselves in their heart of hearts as being a party of colorblind meritocracy. That's their… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to… — Shamus Rahman Khan Copy Share Image
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
'You, too, can be the President,' every American kid is told. But one unintended consequence of this belief, it is that, as… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“Keeping people in jobs they are not suited for is terrible for them because it allows them to live in a false… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Any attempt to redress the inequities and injustices that plague our society has to start with the reality that we will never… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
I think the twenty-first century happened, basically. That this century started on 9/11. And basically, it's been a century of counter reaction… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“A community in which you always have the right and obligation to make sense of things and a process for working yourselves… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“An idea meritocracy requires people to do three things: 1) Put their honest thoughts on the table for everyone to see, 2)… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“One stumbling block is that many people believe that the workplace is largely a meritocracy, which means we look at individuals, not… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“At its most basic, the logic of 'meritocracy' is ironclad: putting the most qualified, best equipped people into the positions of greates… — Christopher Hayes Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
“The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy. The children of the rich are overwhelmingly likely to stay rich.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
Anybody could put their thoughts on a record out there. I think the world of reviews and opinions is now very much… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Meritocracy has nothing to do with who gets in. It's more who you are and where you come from and where you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Our belief is that aspirations, meritocracy, and a world class institution are the three ingredients our country needs. — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
“A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor. — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
