Hard Work does not equal success

[Drake is God]

I hate when people say if you work hard you will be successful. My Uncle Emil owned a corner grocery store and worked 14 to 16 hours a day all his life. He never succeeded in getting rich, but he did get old. This didn't take any great amount of insight on my part, just good eyesight. I could see, with my own eyes, the hours and effort my uncle put in every day, and I could also see that it never got him anywhere.

Everyone has an Uncle Emil. Of course, your Uncle Emil may be a cousin, a brother, or perhaps your father someone who has worked very hard over the years, kept his nose to the grindstone, yet never achieved any great degree of success.

 

[IAmGettingAMailOrderBride]

Why that nikka up north better than Jordan but he ain't get that break



- blackierobinson

 

[DrX]

U have to work hard at working smart....most success comes from getting opportunity from somebody successful

 

[Mason83]

My brother is literally a rocket scientist (aerospace engineer) and makes $150,000 a year at age 27, it is possible

 

[onelastdeath]

Smart Work > Hard Work.

 

[Koba St]

Opening a grocery store and working hard 16hrs a week obviously isn't going to make you succesful. Did he have plans to extend the grocery store? Make it bigger etc? The dude who found Walmart also started out as a grocery store but his ambitions were much bigger than that.

 

[Roid Jones]

Work hard + work smart = Profit

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Its true. You can break your back working your whole life and die penniless easily.

Now youre about to read a bunch of basement dwellers tell you how to be successful

 

[hood b. goode]

To be successful you gotta work smart, too

 

[Marco Andretti]

Yeeaa..... your uncle ain't do something right b

 

[Another Man]

It's hard work + smarts + connections + a bit of luck

There's a difference between running on a treadmill and having somewhere to run

 

[KingDanz]

It's hard work + smarts + connections + a bit of luck

There's a difference between running on a treadmill and having somewhere to run

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

What's your definition of success???

 

[Another Man]

What's your definition of success???

This....OP you said your uncle OWNED his own store. Basically he was his own boss. I'd say that's successful IMO

 

[K.Dot]

Working smart>>>>>>>>>> working hard. You only work hard when it is necessary. Your Uncle likely didn't wirk smart either. Although the "B"(business) quadrant is better than the "E"(employed) quadrant and arguably better than the SE("self employed" aka freelance) quadrant. The "I"(investing) quadrant is the best way to go if you want to be rich. And once you have a plan(aka working smart), getting rich becomes extremely boring and methodological though. You do have to work hard but only towards self control and becoming educated(financial literacy).