Jimmy Wales Quotes

Merit should count more than academic background.

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.

We're playing at our level of ability.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

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

I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

I'm good at what I do. I'm really, really good at what I do, and I'm not saying this with any level of arrogance.

Kevin Dunn is great at what he does.

If you are good enough, you should play.

What always gives me peace of mind is that the best are the best. People who float to the top will always float to the top.

Archer has an incredible talent. He is one of those fast bowlers who makes it look easy.

There's not enough said about the beauty of being able to focus on what you do well.

I only played to the best of my ability and with passion. Call it what you will.

Scoring is easy for me.

Talent always helps. Makes the coach look good.

Math was always my best subject growing up.

There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

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

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.