A new kind of post this week. Let’s take a look at a business quote.
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” (Collier)
Ok, but what does the above quote mean exactly ? Time to focus on its components.
“The sum of” means the result of … Here, adding all the efforts together.
“Day in and day out” is an idiom which means “every day”.
In other words, don’t get too frustrated with those apparently small efforts, they can lead to big things.

“Would” can be used to talk about things which happened often in the past.
It’s often preceded by a sentence, “When I + past simple…”.

Examples :
- When my dad worked, he would spend a lot of time reading CVs at home. He was in charge of recruitment.
- When I worked for Megao, our team would spend most days in meeting rooms. It was exhausting and not very productive.