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创业难,守业更难

/ chuàng yè nán, shǒu yè gèng nán /
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Collocation

1
俗话说,创业难,守业更难
2
创业难,守业更难的道理
3
一定要记住创业难,守业更难

Definition

创业难,守业更难

Literally means:

keeping is harder than winning

Actually means:

to start an undertaking is difficult, but to keep it going is more difficult

It is difficult to start an undertaking, but it is more difficult to keep or maintain an established undertaking and prevent it from declining.

It is often used to advise people to cherish, maintain, carry on and develop the undertaking that was initiated by their ancestors or predecessors.

创立事业很难,但守住或维持已经建立的事业、不让它衰败下去就更难。

多指对前人开创的事业要珍惜、保持、继承,并加以发展。

Example

Used as object or attributive, or as a minor sentence or or an independent sentence. (作宾语、定语,也可 (作小句或独立成句)
1
de
cānguǎn
餐馆
chūmíng
出名
hòu
以后
  
,
jiù
zài
不再
yòngxīn
用心
jīngyíng
经营
le
  
Jiēguǒ
结果
zhèng
正如
rénmen
人们
suǒ
shuō
de
yàng
那样
  
,
chuàng
创业
nán
  
,
shǒu
守业
gēng
nán
  
,
cānguǎn
餐馆
hěnkuài
很快
jiù
yīn
rén
客人
yuèláiyuè
越来越
shǎo
ér
guānmén
关门
le
  

After his restaurant became famous, he stopped running it with his heart. As it turns out, it's hard to start a business, it's harder to keep your job, and restaurants soon close because there are fewer and fewer guests.

2
Gōng
公司
suīrán
虽然
shì
jiàn
建立
lai
起来
le
dànshì
但是
dìng
一定
yào
zhu
记住
chuàng
创业
nán
  
,
shǒu
守业
gēng
nán
  
,
hái
de
继续
努力
qiú
zhǎn
发展
  
,
diǎnr  
一点儿
néng
sōngjìn
松劲
  

Although the company is established but you must remember that it is difficult to start a business, more difficult to keep the industry, but also to continue to work hard for development, not at all can not relax.

3
Chuàng
创业
nán
  
,
shǒu
守业
gēng
nán
  
,
zài
zhèyàng
这样
xià
下去
  
,
ye
爷爷
xīn
辛苦
jiàn
建立
de
shì
事业
dìng
一定
huì
huǐ
zài
shǒu
手里
  

It's hard to start a business, it's harder to keep your job, you go on like this, Grandpa's hard-earned career will be destroyed in your hands.