Motivation & hard work

“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”

– Often attributed to Albert Einstein

What does it mean?

Success often comes from patience, not genius. Keep working on a problem after others have given up.

Who said it?

Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955).

These exact words are widely credited to Albert Einstein, but they don’t appear in their known work. They may be a later paraphrase or a misattribution.

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