Meritocratic Quotes

#1. Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.

Nandan Nilekani

#2. Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

Victor Davis Hanson

#3. The meritocratic spectrum of self-determinist, self-help, books are as follows: on one end there's the _ steps towards a path to true bliss. On the other end of the spectrum there's the _ steps to cope with not reaching a path of true bliss.

Chester Elijah Branch

#4. The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic.

David Miliband

#5. Economic growth is quite simply incapable of satisfying this democratic and meritocratic hope, which must create specific institutions for the purpose and not rely solely on market forces or technological progress.

Thomas Piketty

#6. I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth.
I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that believes in equality of opportunity - my kids have had advantage over 99 percent of the kids in the country ...

Bill Gates

#7. This was a far cry from the meritocratic Ottoman period, when only by dint of an education could a man of humble background hope to rise through the ranks, get rich, and become a pasha.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

Will Rogers

#9. If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case now the answer?

Sonia Sotomayor

#10. We should be content with the incomprehensibility of the universe; the desire to understand makes us less than human, for to be human is to know that one does not understand.

Fernando Pessoa

#11. The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

Shimon Peres

#12. You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.

Debbi Mack