Overnight Success Quotes

• Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

  Biz Stone

  Inspiring, Success, Perseverance

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2010

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• Overnight success stories take a long time.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Long, Stories

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• Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

  Austin Kleon

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Stories

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.47, Workman Publishing

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• It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Successful, Preparation

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• I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

  Ray Kroc

  Night, Years, Long

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• It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

  Mark Cuban

  Determination, Life Changing, Matter

  "How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It". Book by Mark Cuban, June, 2013.

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• It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

  Eddie Cantor

  Success, Persistence, Years

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• There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.

  Henry Sy

  Good Luck, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Ideas, Generations, Financial

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2013

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• An overnight success is ten years in the making.

  Tom Clancy

  Years, Ten

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• It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.

  Seth Godin

  Years, Three, Sometimes

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• Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Want, Wealth, Prosperity

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• Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Years, Games

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Everybody wants the quick fix, but it doesn't happen overnight. You have to be willing to put it out there. I call it 'the secret to being an overnight success,' which means there really isn't a such thing as an overnight success. ! The secret is you work really hard for 10 years, and then you become an overnight success.

  Jon Gordon

  Mean, Years, Secret

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• Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks

  Anthony Calvillo

  Inspiration, Clicks, Up And Down

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• People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality. There are very few bona fide overnight success stories. It just doesn't work that way. Success appears to happen overnight because we all see stories in newspapers and on TV about previously unknown people who have suddenly become famous. But consider a sequoia tree that has been growing for several hundred years. Just because a television crew one day decides to do a story about that tree
  doesn't mean it didn't exist before.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivational, Detours, Truth Is

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.

  Leslie Jones

  Thinking, People, Found

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• I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

  Jessica Savitch

  Half, Literature, Surprise

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• It takes years to make an overnight success.

  Eddie Cantor

  Success, Years

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• My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

  Adrien Brody

  Dad, Years, Half

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• I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

  Mary Karr

  Years, Publishing

  "Mary Karr writes up a storm with 'Cherry'". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2001.

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• In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

  James Dyson

  Age, Stories, Digital

  "Failure can be an option" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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