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Answer for the clue "Person with great potential ", 10 letters:
high-flier

Word definitions for high-flier in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The company was once a high-flier in the disk drive business. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All were aeronautical engineers; and all high-fliers in their particular field. ▪ His high-fliers were brought crashing back to earth ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of highflier English)

Usage examples of high-flier.

He wanted to before, but now that someone jumps off the starting high-flier and shouts his name plus his super annuated rank to the ends of the world, the meanwhile alderman and sharpshooter Heinrich Osterhues has lost all inclination and wants only to make himself scarce.

When A Clubbable Woman came out, I was a whizzkid sergeant, graduate entrant, potential high-flier.

She collects music boxes, dancing bears, cutouts, magic lanterns, whistling tops, decalcomanias, she's just the type for the high-flier.

But no description of the environment, for she doesn't want ice cream, she doesn't know how to shoot, the scenic railway appeals to her only when it's dark, sideshows are always a disappointment, all she wants is the high-flier, for ever and ever.