Marvin Bower Quotes

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

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

Merit should count more than academic background.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.

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

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

On my team, we prioritize merits over politics.

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

I'm tired of demographic appeal being more important than talent. I want to fight against that.

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

... there shall be no differences save by merit of character, by merit of ability, by merit of service to country. Those are the true tests of the value of any man or woman, white or coloured ...

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

Ability and fitness for the office, where they exist, are as a rule, purely accidental. The selection is made primarily to strengthen the power of the party. This explains the principle by which appointments are parceled out to meet the alleged claims of particular political districts; it also explains the even more vicious principle by which race, nationality and creed often dictate the selection of Magistrates.

It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

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

My father values talent. He is colorblind and gender neutral. When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, excellence, and effort.

At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.

I think experience helps but it's not required to be successful.

In Italy they judge you above all on your efficiency.