A Quote by Eddie Cantor

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

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Become Overnight Overnight Success Success Takes Twenty Years

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Eddie Cantor
American - Comedian
January 31, 1892 - October 10, 1964

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

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

Prince

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

Richard Branson

I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!

Paul Strand

"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

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

Monty Hall

It takes years to make an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

A lot of dudes have success, overnight success or one-year success but not many have ten, fifteen, twenty in this game so when you can do that is when I look up to you.

Jadakiss

It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.

Seth Godin

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

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.