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I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.

I can be the most skilled person in the world, but if everyone else at my firm lacks skills, my employer is going to find it more difficult to introduce new technology, new production techniques. So as a result, my employer is going to be less productive. They will not be able to afford to pay me as good wages.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.