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Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

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's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.