Qiān táo wàn lù suī xīnkǔ, chuī jìn kuáng shā shǐ dào jīn — zuò xuéwèn yě shì rúcǐ.
'Though sifting a thousand times is hard, only blowing away the wild sand reveals the gold' — so it is with scholarship.
Chuàngyè shí nián zhōngyú yínglì, zhēn shì chuī jìn kuáng shā shǐ dào jīn.
Ten years of entrepreneurship finally profitable — truly, only after blowing away the sand does one reach the gold.