Karren Brady Quotes

There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.

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

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

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.

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

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

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

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

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

It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

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

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

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

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

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

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.