A Quote by Neil Oliver

It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.

Neil Oliver

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Neil Oliver
British - Historian
Born: February 21, 1967

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

There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.

Cindy Margolis

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

James Daly

You have to appreciate the slow grind because success is not going to happen overnight. It can happen overnight, but that's not my journey.

Davante Adams

The thing that is cool about my come up is that I dealt with fame and having money gradually. It didn't happen overnight. It was something that took a while to happen. It was something that humbled me and made me very appreciative of my blessings more than I would have been if it had happened faster and easier.

Trey Songz

I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

Aliko Dangote

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 worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

Jessica Savitch

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

John Cooper Clarke

While success has hardly come overnight for me, it always comes.

Edwina Findley

On second marriage: It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet.