Mike Leach Quotes

My father was against nepotism.

I don't think the world works on merit.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

I am criticized for getting jobs because of my name, but I only use it when I have to.

Did any agents ever put Diane Ladd up for some of the great parts, even though she always got great reviews? No! But do they put up the girlfriend of the studio executive who's gonna do them a favor later? You betcha.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.

Nepotism is an overrated debate. It exists everywhere and I have been telling this from the day one.

At the end of the day nepotism has been there it's always going to be there don't expect it to change.

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

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.

This town was built on nepotism.

Abuse is getting people preferential treatment when they're not entitled to it. Getting them something they're entitled to, fighting for it, that's me, all the way.

You can’t be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval of affirmative action.… We have to prove ourselves and we have to work hard doing it.

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

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.