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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.'.
Sep 29, 2025
Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.
Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
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.
Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.
Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
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.
We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.
Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.
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.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
It takes years to make an overnight success.
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.
It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
An overnight success is ten years in the making.
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.
Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
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.
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.
Overnight success stories take a long time.
I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.
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.
"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."
...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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.
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.
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.
There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.
People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.
In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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.
The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.
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.
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
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!
When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.
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.
I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.
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.
In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress 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.
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.
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.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.