Work Hard

There’s no substitute.

People want to help those who help themselves by working hard. If you want support you need to show that you’re making most of the running yourself. No one’s going to work hard on your behalf if they can see you twiddling your thumbs.

I’m not telling you to work 24 hours a day without respite. You need to do other things as well as work. Rest and play, obviously—everyone knows that. But you should put in plenty of working hours, and when your time is allocated to work, that’s precisely what you do.

Listen, no one owes you anything. We get what we want by a combination of a bit of luck and a lot of hard work. If you want stuff, you work. Simple as that.