A Quote by Chet Atkins
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
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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.
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.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
Sure there are some companies at the margins of our society that probably do that and I think we all have the responsibility as consumers and as investors to avoid them like the plague. If we do, they won't last very long. Doing what's right is the only possible formula for long-term - I emphasize long term - business success.
People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.
If anyone thinks they have set a formula for success, that's not true. Because if that were to happen then people would only be copying that formula and every following film would be a copy alone.
"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."
Overnight success stories take a long time.
Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.
There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
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