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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

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.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

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.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.