વેપાર કરવા તે એળે, ને ખેતર ખેડવું તે એળે.

vēpāra karavā tē ēḷē, nē khētara khēḍavuṁ tē ēḷē.

Literally: Doing trade comes to nothing, and plowing a field comes to nothing.
What it means: Expresses despair over hard work in business or farming yielding no fruit without good fortune or proper investment.

Also said as

ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1921) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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