Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.
Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success.
Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.
It takes years to make an overnight success.
There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.
An overnight success is ten years in the making.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.
I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far.
Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks
Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.