创业难，守业更难。
Keeping is harder than winning.
创业容易守业难。
It is easier to build two chimneys than to maintain one.
It is easier to get money than to keep it.
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
Property is easier gained than guided.
没有热情就成不了伟业
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
事业可以考验人，也可以造就人。
Business makes a man as well as tries him.
事业上埋头苦干通常会成功。
Push generally succeeds in business.
事业是人生不可缺少的元素。事业是生活的盐。
Business is the salt of life.
事业虽然烦扰，懒惰危害更大。
Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious（危害极大的）.
事业在先，享乐在后。
Business before pleasure.
推动你的事业，不要让事业来推动你。
Drive your business, do not let it drive you.
玩忽事业等于放弃事业。
Business neglected is business lost.
万金油通百艺则无一长。
A little of everything, nothing at all.
Jack / A Jack of all trades and master of none.
Jack of all trades is of no trade.
One who can do everything can do nothing.
伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。
Great hopes make great man.
伟业非一日之功。
Rome was not built in a / one day.
伟业难创。
Nothing great is easy.
要充分利用逆境，事业才会发达。
Make the best of a bad business / job / bargain.
一个篱笆三个桩，一个好汉三个帮。
A fence is fixed by three stakes; a capable is aided by three mates.
He may well swim that is held up by the chin.
He must need swim that is held up by the chin.
It is easy to swim if another holds up your head.
It is hard sailing when there is no wind.
No flying without wings.
因循蹉跎，一事无成。
By the street of “By-and-by”（不久）one arrives at the house of “Never”
自信是完成伟业的首要条件。
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
做一些总比什么都不做强。
It is more pain to do nothing than something.