Success Overnight Quotes & Sayings

Whoever wants to be an overnight success must be willing to sweat for it during the day. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night. — Vonda Shepard

Overnight success happens after a lifetime of sweat. — Matshona Dhliwayo

An overnight success is usally twenty years in the making! — T.I. Wade

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success. — Richard North Patterson

I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to achieve goals. — Novak Djokovic

There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes. — Kevin Ashton

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. — James C. Collins

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. — Eddie Cantor

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

It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation. — Robin Sharma

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. — Henry Sy

I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me. — Darren Criss

Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small
successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be
impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards. — John Gokongwei

Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years. — Monty Hall

Some people think success is overnight. I suppose, considering I came from Australia, it has been pretty quick. But I have a background in stand-up and improv, so I've really had to prove myself. — Rebel Wilson

An overnight success usually takes about ten years. - Anonymous — Dan Millman

Whatever achievements and successes I've had didn't happen overnight. It is all a product of guidance, hard work, careful planning, and intense, passionate execution over many years. (p. 69) — Injap Sia

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

Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice. — Jason Fried

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time. — Tori Kelly

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

I realized that success is not a one-time act or a moment of luck and that "Overnight Success" is never true. Success is created through and by creating a habit caused by proper self-discipline. — Jan Mckingley Hilado

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it. — Noel Gallagher

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

There are no overnight success. It's a combination of humility, sacrifices, tenacity, failure, and opportunity. — Timi Nadela

Thought I wanted overnight success, until I achieved it through hard work and the refusal to back down! What you earn, you keep. — A.M. Hudson

Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our stories makes sense to the one in front of it and make sense to the one after it. There is no such thing as an overnight success. You have to get up and put your work boots on every single day. — Kevin Plank

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

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success. — Malcolm Gladwell

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

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. — Bill Watterson

Watching a tree grow will likely drive you crazy. It's a boring process if you stand there, impatiently tapping your foot, waiting for it to do something. But if you step away and come back later, you'll be surprised to see something beautiful emerge. The fact is the plant is doing something: it's growing. Just not as quickly as you might like. Our culture has conditioned us to expect instant results and overnight success; this impatience runs so rampant that we dress it up in terms like "efficiency" and "productivity." But really what's happening is we are conditioning ourselves to get what we want now, all the time. This mindset robs us of the lessons that waiting can teach us, causing us to miss out on the slow but important stuff of life. — Jeff Goins

It's surprising how many sleepless nights it takes to become an overnight success! — Christoph Martin

An overnight success is ten years in the making. — Tom Clancy

It can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure. — Marc Maron

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

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

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. — Chet Atkins

I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism. — Wendy Davis

Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up. — Dwayne Johnson

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you'll find about a decade's worth of hard work and perseverance. — Austin Kleon

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days. — Brian Chesky

It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'. — Joseph Fiennes

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

Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it. — Carl Henegan

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

I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do. — Norman Reedus

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

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

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell. — Mark Twain

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

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight. — Mark Cane

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success. — George R R Martin

The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work. — Caitlin Fitzgerald

So remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. — Leo Tolstoy

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

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

I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people. — Eric Thomas

Tommy and I put on a radio play to entertain everyone while they unpacked their cookies. It was about a girl who saves up money for a prom dress, but at the last minute she says, "It's only clothes," and buys war bonds instead. The play was a big success, and my whole school pledged to buy war bonds, which should have made me happy. But it gave me a queer feeling; it's easy to write propaganda when everyone agrees with you. Do you understand? I think I'd rather bake cookies; it feels more honest.
Your friend,
Lulu


Sammy looked down at me. "A girl after your own heart!" he said. "In my experience it is a rare female who can say, 'It's only clothes,' and when the war came, you discovered who you really were. Women changed. Children grew up overnight. I wonder what happened to this one. — Ruth Reichl

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. — Eddie Cantor

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

Too many people today on Wall Street go for the quick
buck at the expense of their reputation and client satisfaction, the
rationale being "let's make the money while we can and retire early
in the sun." For me, this is not a sprint but a marathon, besides the
fact that, in my definition, overnight success is 15 years. Anyone who
does not understand the basic tenets of this philosophy is not someone
I can or will do business with. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. — Adrien Brody

Sam Walton said, 'It takes 20 years to be an overnight success. — Allan Branch

Overnight success stories take a long time. — Steve Jobs

Success doesn't come overnight and there's certain things you can't do. I've missed so many weddings, christenings and birthdays, but I know all my family are there behind me, wanting me to do really well and it was worth the sacrifice. — Jenny Meadows

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes. — John Lescroart

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night. — Ray Kroc

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

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

There's no "get rich quick." There's no "overnight success."

However, this doesn't mean that when you decide to start a business that you're just starting. You could start making new money tomorrow.

I was fishing with my son and taught him that you can't catch a fish unless your line is in the water. A truth my dad once taught me.
You may have spent years learning a skill or creating a product or service that you just simply haven't thought to monetize. Like leaving a fishing pole on the ground along side the river, but not having your line in the water yet.

All you need to create a new stream of income is to make something consumable and offer it at a price that someone will pay.

If you're not making offers, you're not making money.

Get your line in the water! — Richie Norton

Take it one step at a time - inarguably wise advice. And yet we all take a running leap, hoping the wind will catch us on its wings and lift us clear to the top of the beanstalk. Those few Jacks who have reached new heights in this manner inevitably wish they'd had more time to prepare for the overbearing giant who greeted them. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success. — Lionel Messi

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

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

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

There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way. — Brenda Strong

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success. — Rick Renzi

4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important to realize that 4chan wasn't some overnight success, and there was never 'hockey stick' - like growth. — Christopher Poole

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes. — Jack Canfield

You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business! — Christopher Tin

I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far. — Benedict Cumberbatch

An Overnight Success is usally 20 years in the making! (I only have five years to go). — T.I. Wade

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

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai. — Criss Angel

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works. — Kate Morton

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success ... where have you been the last 20 years? — Randy Houser

It takes years to make an overnight success. — Eddie Cantor

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

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

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. — Donald Trump

Nothing remarkable or impressive comes to be overnight, and all those so-called "overnight success" stories misrepresent the truth. It is only the manifestation of that success that appeared overnight, but its essence was built up over time. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success. — Cheryl Ladd

I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few. — Bill Watterson

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

Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in ... you're up and down, all of a sudden, it just clicks. And I think that's what's happened to me since I got to Montreal. And I'm proud of the things we've been able to accomplish ... we've all made each other great. — Anthony Calvillo

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