Overnight Success Quotes - Page 3

• I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.

  Bill Watterson

  Ideas, Trying, Detours

  "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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• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

  Donald Byrd

  School, Cat, Rocks

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• Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

  Brian Chesky

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• I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people.

  Eric Thomas

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.

  Henry Sy

  Hard Work, Easy, Substitutes

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• If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Guy, Promise, Warning

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• Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

  Kevin Hart

  Way, Hollywood, Seems

  "Kevin Hart Explains How He Found Success In An Industry Where So Many Fail", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.

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• I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I was almost 18 and been on my own ever since and have been trying to make a living in the music business for the past twelve years. A lot of people say I'm an overnight success, but it's an overnight success that's been twelve years in the making.

  Bo Bice

  Blessed, Past, Years

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• I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Years, Lovely

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• Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.

  Patrick Collison

  Couple, Years, Stripes

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• One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Night, Self Respect, Said

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• It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Thinking, Years, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

  Vanilla Ice

  Thinking, Years, People

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 6, 1998.

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• Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our stories makes sense to the one in front of it and make sense to the one after it. There is no such thing as an overnight success. You have to get up and put your work boots on every single day.

  Kevin Plank

  Jobs, Stories, Boots

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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.

  Donald Trump

  Reality, Thinking, People

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

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• It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

  Criss Angel

  Mom, Years, Car

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