Overnight Success Quotes - Page 2

• ...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Giving Up, Achievement, Remember

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• My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Writing, Years

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• I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

  Rick Renzi

  Running, Believe, Cutting

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• Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

  Jack Canfield

  Valuable, Take Time

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• There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.

  Cindy Margolis

  Success, Congratulations, Long

  IGN For Men interview, www.ign.com. March 10, 2002.

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• "Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making."

  Sam Walton

  Years, Ideas, People

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• We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

  Kelly Jones

  Want, Problem

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• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Movie, Witty

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• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

  William Feather

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Long, Looks

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• When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

  Lionel Messi

  Badass, Years, Beats

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• You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!

  Christopher Tin

  Dedication, Careers, Watches

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• In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

  Richard North Patterson

  Years, Firsts, Quitting

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• There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success.

  Richard Branson

  Winning, Years

  Twitter post from Aug 21, 2014

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• I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

  Criss Angel

  Years, People, Short Circuit

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• People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.

  Damon Lindelof

  People, Luck, Done

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

  Kevin Ashton

  Night, Up All Night, All Night

  "How to Fly a Horse — The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery". Book by Kevin Ashton, www.businessinsider.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.

  Prince

  Years, Sometimes, Persons

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• Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Years, Has Beens, Ten

  "Overnight Success Does Not Exist". ecorner.stanford.edu. January 20, 2010.

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• The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Real, Media

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• You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

  Bill Watterson

  Detours, Resources, Wells

  "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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• I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.

  Darren Criss

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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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. And I think that's what's happened to me since I got to Montreal. And I'm proud of the things we've been able to accomplish ... we've all made each other great.

  Anthony Calvillo

  Thinking, Effort, Proud

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• I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

  John Lescroart

  Couple, Book, Anecdotes

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