Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Equality of opportunity means the achievers must be allowed to achieve.

I'm changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly.

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

I was a firm believer that every cricketer needs to get a fair chance.

NASA didn't give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

What I want is the same opportunities as anyone to get a part.

We were a land of opportunity. You can never have equal outcomes, but you can have equal opportunity.

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 application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.

I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

Sama means 'equal' in Sanskrit; I chose 'Samasource' because I thought it really reflected a value that I had and that I wanted the company to have, which is that everyone has equal capabilities and deserves an equal chance.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

Whatever we do, whatever our backgrounds, we've all had some kind of advantage somewhere along the way. Some break that might have gone to someone else. Some edge or inside track we couldn't have counted on.