I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.
It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.
It took about 10 years' time for Shopify to be 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.
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
Nothing is ever quick. You have to grow an audience, keep them engaged, give them a reason to keep coming back so it will never be an overnight success. Have patience!
Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
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.
Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.
The biggest hits - be they Coca-Cola or Doritos - owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don't have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.
Your tenacity is a larger deciding factor in your success than however good or bad an actor you may be. I feel like that's just something that cannot be overstated enough for people getting into the business. You have to really want it more than anybody else.
My goal is not to overtake Tinder or compete with Tinder. To be fully honest with you, I think Tinder is a great product. It's still my baby at the end of the day. So I wish it continued success. I still have equity in Tinder.
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.
Everything I've achieved has come from perseverance. I've never met another entrepreneur who had a painless path to success - everyone who tries to bring new ideas to the world is tested.
If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?
To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
