Peter Drucker Quotes

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

People call me a genius. I don't know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of the ability that I was born with but also because I worked hard.

You can be successful without learning music, but success has nothing to do with quality.

Nothing that comes easy in this world is worth a damn.

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

A thing well done is worth doing.

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.

Quality is easy to talk but hard to make.

I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.

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?

Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

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

You want to be the best at something.

There are no shortcuts to true excellence.