A Quote by Patrick Collison

Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success. — © Patrick Collison
Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.
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.
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an agreement for an immigration proposal that we will be putting out next week, ... our proposal is along the lines of make them pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars, make them work for three years, and after three years they can get in the back of the line for a green card and then eventually become citizens.
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.
There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success.
You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.
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!
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.
When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
"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."
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.
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.
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