"I tell you that you are wrong, Caporal Bound." Then, just as easily, the batpony pulled her hoof out once again. "Hard work does not 'pay off in the end.' You may work as hard as you please, but if you do the wrong work or the work the wrong way, then it will come to nothing, or next-to-nothing. Look at how you struggle to do what I have done. Is that struggle 'paying off?'"