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
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
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
It's not necessarily a meritocracy, the UFC, as we know, and that's down to partly marketability. — Dan Hardy 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. You're sizing people up to see if they're worth your time and… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“The search for better, for more competent men, from the presidents of our great companies down to our household servants, was never… — Frederick Winslow Taylor Copy Share Image
“Sonnet 1306 Doctors are not official representatives, Yet they do their job quite efficiently. Teachers are not official representatives, Yet they do… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In order to get past disagreements, you just can't have one person with power decide. In other words, so just because I'm… — Ray Dalio 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
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
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
“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
A diverse elite may be good in its own right, as a matter of justice and representation. But nothing about being a… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The hard thing for me, and it took me many years to understand, the concept of Hollywood not being a meritocracy -… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside]… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Silicon Valley is not a perfect meritocracy, but it is open to all who are highly motivated. For example, there is a… — Deborah Perry Piscione Copy Share Image
“If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out. — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image