Quota famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
-- Angela Ahrendts -
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
-- Anne Carson -
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
-- Anthony Marra -
I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already surpassed my quota for the fifth day in a row. I cannot kill him.
-- Gena Showalter -
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment.
-- Ilana Mercer -
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
-- Jack Kemp -
A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.
-- Jacques Santer -
I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.
-- James F. Amos -
Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.
-- Jasper Fforde -
Value the relationship more than making your quota.
-- Jeffrey Gitomer -
Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.
-- John Dramani Mahama -
Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.
-- Marvin Olasky -
It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.
-- Peter Oliver -
Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.
-- Pietro Aretino -
I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota.
-- Reed Morano -
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
-- W. Edwards Deming -
Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon.
-- Wilbur Ross -
If you are a complainer you might have already spent your HELP quota.
-- Zig Ziglar -
I was a lawyer and I have been married to a lawyer. I think one lawyer per household is plenty. It's a good quota for us.
-- Kellyanne Conway -
I am certain that we do not need quotas for women, especially not in a time when we have a growing shortage of qualified workers. Companies are already asking head hunters to find women for top positions.
-- Kristina Schroder -
A quota for women always amounts to a failure of politics. For me, economics is first and foremost the ability to act freely without state rules. That's why I believe quotas should only be used as a last resort.
-- Kristina Schroder -
Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.
-- Mary Kissel -
We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.
-- Fady Joudah
