Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
Education is the starting point for any comprehensive assault on entrenched social inequality and the midwife of a truly effective meritocracy. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Tennis is very much a meritocracy. There's no favoritism, there's no politics. You either win or lose based on how you perform… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
It's not necessarily a meritocracy, the UFC, as we know, and that's down to partly marketability. — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
As one of the grammar-school generation, I grew up as part of a postwar meritocracy that steadily infiltrated the citadels of power. — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
One of the great joys of launching your idea on the web is that it's a meritocracy. The good stuff will rise… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
You're on stage and because stand-up comedy is one of the few meritocracies in the entertainment industry, there's some kind of -… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“All the professions that actually require some tangible skillsets and expertise, don't rely on the jungle whim of democracy. Yet the most… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Acting can be a very cruel mistress. It's not a meritocracy. In other walks of life, by being good at what you… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
To have an idea meritocracy, one needs to do three things. First, they have to put their honest thoughts on the table,… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Technological change, globalization, genetic advantages, even greed, are to be found everywhere, and can’t explain why we are more immobile than the… — F. H. Buckley Copy Share Image
“There is no solidarity in a meritocracy. The very idea contradicts the ideology of the well-graduated technocrats who rule us. As we… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“Investors are people with more money than time. Employees are people with more time than money. Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens.… — Antonio García Martínez Copy Share Image
The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy,… — Katherine Losse Copy Share Image
I think you are looking at sexuality and not attributes, and I think it's odd because the conservative mantra is a meritocracy.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“The insistence is on merit, insinuating that any current majority white leadership in any industry has got there through hard work and… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
I don't think actually that kind of ego check or "I could do better" mentality probably serves better in Hollywood, because it's… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
But the truth is the meritocracy is a lie. Those born into wealth and privilege will always be able to game the… — Krystal Ball Copy Share Image
Let's remember what truly unites us. It's a common belief in a better economic future. A belief in a meritocracy. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Radical transparency is critical to having an idea meritocracy because it shows what's actually happening without spin and prevents people from maneuvering… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Reinhardt, a German immigrant, told me that the selection of white legacies over Asian scholars reflects a disturbing trend in American society.… — Daniel Golden Copy Share Image
Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“They should live all together on an equal footing; merit to be their only road to eminence, and the disgrace of evil,… — Plutarch 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
American computer science grads often have very little exposure to the human condition. They've rarely had manual labor or service jobs. They… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
ICICI has been a meritocracy. So, a huge amount a lot of responsibilities, big roles, challenges, have been given to women, not… — Chanda Kochhar Copy Share Image
For the longest time, the state discourse in Singapore has eschewed any reference to welfare. Similarly, the state has tended to place… — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty. But total liberty leads to various forms of "aristocracy" and… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
“Creating a meritocracy requires equal participation by both the hippo, who could rule the day by fiat, and the brave smart creative,… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
“This story is not at all an uncommon one in tech circles, including gaming. The popular notion is that women who get… — Bailey Poland Copy Share Image
The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
