A Quote by David Heinemeier Hansson

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

David Heinemeier Hansson

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David Heinemeier Hansson
Danish - Programmer
Born: October 15, 1979

"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

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

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

It's so funny, this thing of 'overnight success.' I've been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!

Brett Goldstein

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

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

Tom Clancy

Failure turns into success. It looks like it happens overnight to other people, but it's just one person's determination to get past a certain goal. Everybody thinks it's an overnight success, but it's not. It's something someone has been working very, very hard on, and more than likely, has been too embarrassed to tell anybody. No one really wants to show other people their failures. They want to show their success.

Ryan Guzman

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

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

James Daly

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

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

Andrew Yang

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

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

Biz Stone

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

Leslie Jones

Sweet But Psycho' blew up pretty much overnight after my 10-year struggle. It's hilarious when people say it was overnight, because it was not overnight.