Stick to Your Job
Diamonds are only chunks of coal
That stuck to their jobs, you see;
If they’d petered out, as most of us do,
Where would the diamonds be?
It isn’t the fact of making a start,
It’s the sticking that counts. I’ll say,
It’s the fellow that knows not the meaning of fall,
But hammers and hammers away.
Whenever you think you’ve come to the end,
And you’re beaten as bad as can be,
Remember that diamonds are chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.
by Minnie Richard Smith: as published in Christian F. Kleinknecht: “Poor Richard’s Anthology of Thoughts on Success” (1947), page 44
Diamonds are only chunks of coal
That stuck to their jobs, you see;
If they’d petered out, as most of us do,
Where would the diamonds be?
It isn’t the fact of making a start,
It’s the sticking that counts. I’ll say,
It’s the fellow that knows not the meaning of fall,
But hammers and hammers away.
Whenever you think you’ve come to the end,
And you’re beaten as bad as can be,
Remember that diamonds are chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.
by Minnie Richard Smith: as published in Christian F. Kleinknecht: “Poor Richard’s Anthology of Thoughts on Success” (1947), page 44
