John Ridley Quotes

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.

David Cohen is without a doubt one of the best - if not the best - public servant I've ever encountered.

I don't want a president like me! I suck, okay. I want an elitist, smart guy.

Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

If you're going to put me in the booth, make sure it's because I'm good enough to be there.

If you are good enough, you should play.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

My objective is to be among the best.

Trump bragged about hiring only the 'best people' when he was running for president. We're seeing, time and again, the opposite. It's unclear whether the president's definition of 'best people' is different than ours, or if the 'best people' simply aren't interested in working for him.

I was surprised to find so much distinguished talent among the subjects, and so little among the heads of the Government. It is a well-authenticated fact, that at the present day the most able men in the United States are very rarely placed at the head of affairs.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.

If you're good enough, the referee doesn't matter.

If I'm a "B player," that's because the "B" stands for badass.

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

Perform your job better than anyone else can. That's the best job security I know.

At my best I was as good as anyone.

When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

I'm always like, "Maybe I can drive the car. I can still fly the plane!"

Showing off is what you do when your are simply better than everybody else.

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

I don't listen to people who can't do stuff that I do.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.