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花小钱,赚大钱 actually translates to, "you got to spend money to make money". Subtleties in the Chinese language.
by zyang 14y ago
花小钱,赚大钱 actually translates to, "you got to spend money to make money". Subtleties in the Chinese language.
- dsrguru 14y agoWell, there's also the size nuance here -- that you need to spend far less than you'll end up earning. For the non-Chinese speakers out there, it literally means "Spend [a] small [amount of] money, make big money," with the same implication found in the techie epigram "Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning."
- rexreed 14y agoIt roughly correlates to the expression, 'It takes a little bit of money to make a lot of money' -- implying the need to spend a little and also the contrast in relative quantities.