Johnny Olson Quotes

Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Acting is something I work really, really hard on that I throw myself into a situation where I do work 18 hours a day. And I do hope to see longevity.

Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

I've always been playing because I knew this was eventually going to pay off in the long run for me.

It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

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

I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.

It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Runnin' this game for five years, guess that's why my feet hurt.

Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater acheivement.