A Quote by Andrew Yang

Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.

Andrew Yang

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Andrew Yang
American - Public Servant
Born: May 15, 1955

"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

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

David Heinemeier Hansson

Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.

William Ramsay

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

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

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

Kevin Ashton

Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you choose not to be involved in any communities, making sure you keep a safe distance from people in your life. I’m not recommending isolation. Science, psychology, and religion all suggest long term isolation is dangerous and unhealthy.

Stephen Lovegrove

It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation.

Robin Sharma

I think that we've made a lot of progress in the years since the Stonewall uprising, and as far as equality for marriage and things like that go.

Alaska

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Dag Hammarskjold

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.

Chelsea Manning

The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

Pope Gregory I

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

John Hutton

For Arkansas, I think the sky is the limit, but I think we are going to have to fight the urge to avoid risks. We need to look first at where we are as a state. I think, as a state, we have made progress over the years, but there are two kinds of progress: absolute progress and relative progress.

Tim Griffin

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

Christine Lagarde

We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.

Sheryl Sandberg

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