Meritocracy Quotes
18 quotes by 14 authors
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An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of…
— Robert Bork
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Chess is a meritocracy.
— Lawrence Day
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What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood…
— John A. Byrne
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America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
— Toby Young
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I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.
— Chelsea Clinton
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All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and…
— Maynard Webb
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The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what…
— Steve Jobs
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You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not…
— Carly Fiorina
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Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
— Eric Ries
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A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are…
— Steve Jobs
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Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often,…
— Wilbur Ross
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If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of information, meritocracy of…
— Heather Brooke
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America is a meritocracy.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a…
— Kate Reardon
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When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or…
— Eric Ries
Who Wrote These Meritocracy Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 18 Meritocracy Quotes as follows: