Good thing Quote by Eric Ries

There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief…

— Mitch Kapor

Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but…

— Chris Hayes

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a…

— Matt Mullenweg

When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what…

— Maynard Webb

Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.

— Confucius

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages,…

— Shamus Rahman Khan

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

— Samuel Johnson

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

— Anonymous

The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself.

— Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

— St. Catherine of Siena