Tory Burch Quotes

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.

Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

Plodding wins the race.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

Nothing came to me overnight unlike many others in the industry.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success.

I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to achieve goals.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.