It's not that you don't have to work hard if you have talent. It's that if you don't have the talent, no amount of hard work is going to make up for it. There

It's not that you don't have to work hard if you have talent. It's that if you don't have the talent, no amount of hard work is going to make up for it. There are so many people in the world, so much competition. That to be "top" performer in whatever field you have to 1) have innate talent, 2) work your ass off 3) get lucky.