Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.

Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.

In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.

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

My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

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

I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should.

I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

I never want to get a job because I'm female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve it... Whether my hair is going to be blue or purple, people should be judged on how well they do the job and deliver results and whether they do it the right way. That's how I like to be judged; most people are like that.

Just put the best person into the job.

If somebody were more passionate about Redfin, how would she not be more qualified to have my job than I am? Like, that's the thing I have to be the best at.

We will give importance to performance while choosing officials.

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

Business doesn't cut you any slack because of your gender. You're either good at what you do or you're not.

After your debut, it doesn't matter whether your parents are actors or factory workers. All that matters is whether you can get the job done.

I would not board a plane piloted by a quota beneficiary or be operated on by a quota doctor.

At Ajax, they don't worry about your age. If you're good enough, you play.

I don't have a gender thesis. I am truly optimizing for the right person for the task, whether that means running a company or working on my team.

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or Mommy's pocketbooks can send them. Everybody oughta have health care, everybody oughta have some retirement security, every American. Every one. Everybody oughta have a decent good job. That's what I believe in, and that's what I fight every day to try to achieve.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.