Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some.
Adam Lashinsky
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
Adrien Brody
Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.
Andrew Yang
With So Solid, we had overnight success and I bought stupid stuff with my money, I bought a 35k car while I was still living in a council flat.
Ashley Walters
I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.
Ben Lewin
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 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
Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.
Cheryl Ladd
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
There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
Cindy Margolis
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
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
Darren Criss
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.
Donald Byrd
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor
Someone might look like an overnight success, but there's a lot of hard work that goes into it, and rightfully so. That's the way it should be. There are exceptions to that rule, but in country music, people really have to pay their dues.
Frankie Ballard
Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.
Gabby Barrett
There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.
Henry Sy
People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
James Daly
Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.
Jason Calacanis
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.
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.
Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.
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!
It's really important that young people realise very rarely do you become an 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.
We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.
Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
My sister was cute, she said, 'Oh my gosh, you're an overnight success.' 'Oh,' I said, 'this is the longest night.' I've been at it since 1982.
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.
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.
I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions... But I've got to give luck some credit.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.
I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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?
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.
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.
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.
I know it wasn't like a meteoric rise, it was not overnight success. Nobody watched my movie, fell in love and said 'I'm her biggest fan.' People took time to warm up to me.
We need to realise that not everyone can take the path to overnight success. Take actors such as Rajkummar Rao and Vicky Kaushal - they have built their work and profile over the years to get to where they are.
On Twitter, there'll be fans of 'Army Wives' and people who say, 'I've been following you since 'Supernatural,' I loved you on 'Person of Interest,'' and it's really cool to get that love. To them, I'm not just an overnight success.
We've had some huge moments. But we've always been on a steady, gentle, upward slope, and I think that keeps us grounded. There's been no overnight success here, and we haven't dealt with a whole lot of hot and cold.
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.
It took about 10 years' time for Shopify to be an overnight success.
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.
There's no such thing as an overnight success.
