Eric Ries Quotes

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

Merit should count more than academic background.

I want to see genuine talent rewarded.

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

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.

An award should be earned based on an actor's ability and not be just given as a present.

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.

Talent is very hot.

If you're good at it, you can win.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that's who the focus is on - and it definitely doesn't matter if I am a woman or a man.

We're playing at our level of ability.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

Talents & science are sufficient motives with me in appointments to which they are fitted.

It's one thing to talk about lack of diversity and lack of representation. But that doesn't matter if you're not good at what you're supposed to be doing.

I know who can play and who can't play and I'm very straight-forward... If you can play, you can play; if you can't, you can't.

When a player deserves to play, with me, he'll play.