Quotes About Success

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

No one's an overnight sensation unless you're Batman.

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

I feel I've done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn't do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what's going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I'll become an overnight sensation.

The thing that is cool about my come up is that I dealt with fame and having money gradually. It didn't happen overnight. It was something that took a while to happen. It was something that humbled me and made me very appreciative of my blessings more than I would have been if it had happened faster and easier.

I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.

Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

Great leadership and great companies aren't built overnight, and they're not built without capital. And capital can sometimes be counter-productive to building a great culture.

Being quickest in practice is nice. It builds a lot of confidence overnight.

People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

You can become a star overnight, guys. You can be on the street walking one day, and you're on your way to the corner diner, and you had to hitch a ride to get there. And the next day, you can be a huge star, money coming at you from right and left. And you've got to know how to handle that situation.

When you become a mega-icon overnight, there's no way to keep that intensity continually going.

My success was pretty overnight.

Just because my song was being played on the radio didn't mean I had a load of money. You don't get royalties overnight.

I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.

A lot of people think they can become world stars overnight.

Success has been a gradual thing; it hasn't been overnight. So I appreciate everything and never take it for granted.

Fame doesn't come overnight.

I think people think how I got work came easy. People assume that I was an overnight sensation, because they're just now hearing about me, or that everything happened very quickly.

I don't think you are ever prepared for success with bands like Simple Minds and U2. It wasn't until your fourth or fifth album that you really got that big-league success. It doesn't happen overnight, so you get used to it.