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An overnight success is ten years in the making.

Tom Clancy

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Tom Clancy
American - Novelist
April 12, 1947 - October 1, 2013

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

David Heinemeier Hansson

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

"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

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

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

Biz Stone

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

Brett Goldstein

Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some.

Adam Lashinsky

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

Lisa Loeb

Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.

Cornel West

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

Give yourself ten years of failing with a smile on your face. If, after ten years, you still have the passion, you're heading to success!

Walshy Fire

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

James Daly

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

Mary Karr

Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

Mary Mapes Dodge

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Kevin Hart

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