Robert Half Quotes

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.

I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they're not willing to do the work. Relying on talent is not enough.

I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

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.

The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

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 alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

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

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study.

Talent doesn't always equal success.