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This business can be so fickle, and a lot of times, hard work isn't enough.
I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.
Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.
Seven months after Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey residents and business are continuing the hard work of recovery.
I've always maintained the basic business principles of keeping it simple, doing your homework, hard work, and common sense.
Hard work pays off. But it doesn't stop now. I know I'm generational wealthy, as you can say, but still got business to handle.
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.
I sometimes compare starting a business to having a child. You have a moment of profound inspiration, followed by months of thankless hard work and waking up in the middle of the night.
Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.
Opening a business is going to be hard work, no matter what choices you make. If you decide to fall on your sword and just slog through all the work as an operator instead of an owner, then you take responsibility for the entire operation and the actions of the business.
I have gone through some bad times with my own business. At one point, I was working my socks off, driving, delivering, baking. It was hard, hard work. But I worked through it. Running your own bakery is hard. I never came close to bankruptcy, but I had to cut back on staff.
I've learned an enormous amount about the business itself, about what it takes - the stamina and the dedication and the diligence - to succeed out here... And I'm very, very thankful, and I have a wonderful career, but it's hard work... I'm very comfortable with who I am as an actor now and excited to try all kinds of things.