The line is widely cited in Mao-era and post-Mao prose as a proverb-style summation of the hardship of founding any great enterprise. It echoes the sentiment of
毛泽东《
七律·
吊罗荣桓同志》(1963) and classical military lines like
百战多 in Tang regulated verse, but functions today as a free-standing maxim rather than a tagged quotation. Often used in memoirs of Communist Party history, business founder interviews, and retrospective editorials.
