Thrift can help the poor, diligence can make up for clumsiness.

Poverty can't be helped but by thrift, and clumsiness can't be helped by diligence.

-- "Night Talks Around the Furnace"

Analysis

In a person's life, it is inevitable that there will be ups and downs, ups and downs. When you are poor and downtrodden, you should not lose your ambition. In the face of poverty, the best way to survive is to be frugal. Mencius once said, "Thrift nourishes virtue." Thrift and frugality are the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, and even if you wait until you are rich, you should not forget to be thrifty.

? Human success, half from the nature of smart, half from the acquired diligence. If a genius does not work hard, he will become a mediocrity. And born stupid people, as long as the diligence, as can make up for the lack of talent defects, and even let the proud genius lost at your feet.