source: "Interview With Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina: 'The Nation With The Best Brain Power Wins'". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 31, 2010.

topic: Believe, Technology, Thinking, Meritocracy

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

- Toby Young

topic: Thinking, America, People, Meritocracy

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 has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Running, Teacher, Unions, Meritocracy

For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.

- Peggy McIntosh

source: "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack". Peggy McIntosh, Peace and Freedom Magazine (by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), July/August 1989.

topic: Country, Giving Up, Doors, White Privilege, Meritocracy

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 an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism.

- Immanuel Wallerstein

topic: Historical, Perception, Hierarchy, Meritocracy, Allocation

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 position.

- Immanuel Wallerstein

topic: Argument, Century, Process, Meritocracy

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 merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority.

- Immanuel Wallerstein

topic: Reality, Civilization, Two, Meritocracy

Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.

- Richard Rohr

topic: Ocean, Moving, Thinking, Meritocracy, Quid Pro Quo

Radical transparency is critical to having an idea meritocracy because it shows what's actually happening without spin and prevents people from maneuvering politically behind each others' backs. It brings problems and weaknesses to the surface and allows people to see how they are dealt with, so it's great for training people on how to deal with real problems.

- Ray Dalio

source: "Ray Dalio, head of the world's largest hedge fund, explains his succession plan for Bridgewater and how its 'radically transparent' culture is misunderstood". Interview with Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2016.

topic: Real, Ideas, People, Meritocracy

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

- Chelsea Clinton

topic: Wall, Camaraderie, Trading, Trading Floor, Meritocracy

It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already.

- Peggy McIntosh

source: "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies". 1988.

topic: Hands, White Privilege, Numbers, Meritocracy

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 relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

- Maynard Webb

source: "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

topic: Creating, People, Benefits, Meritocracy, Fostering

To have an idea meritocracy, one needs to do three things. First, they have to put their honest thoughts on the table, for everyone to look at and everyone to work through. Second, they need to have thoughtful disagreement, by which there are quality exchanges, in which there's open mindedness and the realization that no one has all the right answers. And you can work through that and get to better answers because good collective decision making is better than any individual decision making. And third, you have to have ways of getting past the disagreements if they remain.

- Ray Dalio

source: Source: www.omnivoracious.com

topic: Thoughtful, Past, Decision, Meritocracy

You have the Republican Party, who see themselves in their heart of hearts as being a party of colorblind meritocracy. That's their great belief about themselves. And yet somehow you also have a party where a lot of racial resentment and a camp of even neo-Nazis have set up camp in their party. If you point it out to them, they get mad at you, not at the neo-Nazis.

- Van Jones

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Party, Heart, Mad, Meritocracy

I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.

- Ben Affleck

topic: Couple, Swings, Yesterday, Meritocracy, Seniority

And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people in this country who don't have jobs, who graduate from college and are fed the lie of meritocracy. "You get a degree, you get a job." That's not happening. We have young people who have become the Zero Generation: zero hope, zero employment, zero possibilities. Do we really believe that this young generation is going to stand by and not take note of an economic system that - however it calls itself - has completely betrayed them?

- Henry Giroux

topic: Country, Lying, Believe, Meritocracy

Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.

- Jim Gaffigan

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Levels, Entertainment, Comedy, Meritocracy

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

- Doug Liman

topic: Air, Gone, Tvs, Meritocracy

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 to globalization and the meritocracy. And a good century for 72 nations have gotten more authoritarian. We've had Brexit. We have Le Pen rising in France. We've just got a lot of these types all around the world. And the people who are suffering from globalization and the meritocracy are saying, "No more. You know, we get a voice too."

- David Brooks

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Thinking, People, Suffering, Meritocracy

The hard thing for me, and it took me many years to understand, the concept of Hollywood not being a meritocracy - I am a middle child, and as most middle children will tell you, that never goes away, wishing the world was fair and understanding.

- Suzanne Todd

topic: Children, Understanding, Wish, Meritocracy

I don't think actually that kind of ego check or "I could do better" mentality probably serves better in Hollywood, because it's definitely not a meritocracy. You can look at any number of careers and sort of see that they don't really make sense if it was only based on your movies working either creatively or financially. There are people that move ahead without that, and there are people that don't move ahead even if they did have that.

- Suzanne Todd

topic: Moving, Thinking, People, Meritocracy

For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.

- Alex Kapranos

source: Source: www.theguardian.com

topic: Meritocracy, Nepotism

In order to get past disagreements, you just can't have one person with power decide. In other words, so just because I'm a boss, it would be terrible if I then said, "Okay, we're gonna go do this." That's why, after that thoughtful disagreement, there has to be a process of an idea meritocracy. That means okay, now you have to vote, not that the decision resides with power. And then you vote and move beyond it.

- Ray Dalio

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Moving, Mean, Thoughtful, Meritocracy

You're on stage and because stand-up comedy is one of the few meritocracies in the entertainment industry, there's some kind of - at least for me, there's some kind of idea of control.

- Jim Gaffigan

source: "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

topic: Ideas, Entertainment, Comedy, Meritocracy

I think you are looking at sexuality and not attributes, and I think it's odd because the conservative mantra is a meritocracy. And I think what you're suggesting is the fact that being gay parents makes you not as good as others. And I would suggest that a loving, gay family with a financially secure background beats the hell out of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline any day of the week.

- Jon Stewart

source: "Mike Huckabee, Part 2". "The Daily Show" official website, December 09, 2008.

topic: Gay, Thinking, Parent, Meritocracy, Days Of The Week

Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes to folks who just started doing it. That's the beauty of comedy: it's close to a pure meritocracy.

- Ted Alexandro

source: "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

topic: Class, People, Training, Meritocracy

The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy, that it values intelligence and creativity, that everyone has a fair shot if they just work hard enough. This was true only if you were technical, and even that may not always be enough: in the age of the social network, who you know and who your friends were was becoming increasingly important.

- Katherine Losse

source: Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hard Work, Creativity, Important, Meritocracy, Silicon Valley

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

- Rashida Jones

source: "Britney's Married Man Not Cutting Ties With Wife". www.today.com. January 14, 2008.

topic: Believe, People, Hollywood, Meritocracy

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