Tā qǐzǎotānhēi de gōngzuò, zhōngyú kāi le zìjǐ de diàn.
He worked early mornings and late nights, and finally opened his own shop.
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贪 normally means 'to covet' — here it's stretched into 'to greedily cling to'. So the phrase is literally 'rise early, cling to the dark' (i.e. work into the night). The odd use of 贪 is what makes it memorable.
