📖 From the book The Almanack of Naval Ravikant…
It’s not really about hard work. You can work in a restaurant eighty hours a week, and you’re not going to get rich. Getting rich is about knowing what to do, who to do it with, and when to do it. It is much more about understanding than purely hard work.
Yes, hard work matters, and you can’t skimp on it. But it has to be directed in the right way.
💬 Reminds me of words from Robert Ringer’s book, Winning Through Intimidation…
Have you not seen, with your own eyes, that working long, hard hours does not by itself assure a person of success?
In this regard, I often think of my Uncle George… This kindly little gentleman owned a corner grocery store and worked fourteen- to sixteen-hour days all his life. He never succeeded in getting rich, but he did get old.
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