Warren Bennis Quotes

It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

Money can run out but talent is forever

We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don't believe that is who we are.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

I think I have a natural ability to lead.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

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.