Quotes on Overnight Success

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are 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.

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

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

The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.

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

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

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