Jason Calacanis Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

It's been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, 'Oh she just popped up on the scene,' but I've been working on this for some time.

Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.

Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.

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

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

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

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