A Quote by Jason Calacanis

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not. — © Jason Calacanis
Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
An important lesson: Things that look like an overnight success usually aren't.
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.
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.
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.
People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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.
People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.
Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
It's so funny, this thing of 'overnight success.' I've been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!
Someone might look like an overnight success, but there's a lot of hard work that goes into it, and rightfully so. That's the way it should be. There are exceptions to that rule, but in country music, people really have to pay their dues.
Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.
Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.
"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."
If you look at iPod, iPod wasn't viewed as a success, but today it's viewed as an overnight success. The iPhone was the same way. People were writing about there's no physical keyboard. Obviously nobody would want it.
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