Top 1200 Overnight Success Quotes & Sayings

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

Success isn’t something that happens overnight: it’s a process. You have to nurture it along with continuous care, and the best way to do this is to have the right people working with you - not for you, but with you. I can dream alone and strive alone, but true success always requires the help and support of others.

Getting success really quickly - overnight success - it's a bit jarring at first, for sure, to transition into that.

Overnight success stories take a long time.

You don't just become a success overnight.

People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.

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

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.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

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

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

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.

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

Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.

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

Success doesn't happen overnight.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

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

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.

"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."

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

It's really important that young people realise very rarely do you become an overnight success.

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.

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.

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

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

My success was pretty overnight.

There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

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

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

If you want success, you have to work hard at it and realize that it takes time; it doesn't come to you overnight.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.

An important lesson: Things that look like an overnight success usually aren't.

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.

Sweet But Psycho' blew up pretty much overnight after my 10-year struggle. It's hilarious when people say it was overnight, because it was not overnight.

You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.

I was a 17-year overnight success really. I think I earned it.

I believe that success either comes overnight or slowly, but steadily.

It takes years to make an overnight success.

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

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.

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.

Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.

Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.

It took about 10 years' time for Shopify to be an overnight success.