In other words, no money, no mentors, no helpers and no shortcuts.
Or to use a similar expression, he cut no corners.
To do something the hard way, you see, is opposite to doing it the easy way.
Fresh into a career, for instance, to do it the easy way is to have a mentor take you under his wings, leading the way so that you don’t have to make the same silly mistakes young employees make as they learn the ropes and cut their teeth (to cut their teeth against the proverbial ropes, by the way, is the hard way).
Or better still, you have a father that knows the head of the company and he has you put in a leading position right away. In that position, all you have to do is attend meetings, talk nonsense without having to do any real work.
On the other hand, if you have to go through all the hardships of going through apprenticeship before making a name for yourself through honest hard work, nothing’s come easy for you. That way, you’ll be doing it the hard way.
Doing it the hard way is better, by the way. I won’t elaborate on why this is so because I am sure you’ll find it out by yourself.
Anyways, to sum up, doing something the hard way is a good expression to describe someone who achieves their aim through honest hard work, without cutting corners by taking unfair advantages of people and situations.
Sometimes this is the painful way, as a matter of fact, as demonstrated by the first of these examples culled from the Web:
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