A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Chet Atkins

A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
Jesse Livermore

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.
William Kirby

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Frederick W. Smith

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.
Monty Hall

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
Olga Korbut

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
Sargent Shriver

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
Bo Bennett

But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
Earl Browder

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.
Julie Benz

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.
Ellen Tauscher

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Samuel Goldwyn

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.
Rick Renzi

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.
Wietse Venema

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.
Eric McCormack

I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.
Robbie Coltrane

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
Nicholas D. Kristof

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
Chris Bell

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.
James Levine