#overnight

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#day #errors #event #every #every day

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big. ↗

— Sting

#big #famous #i #nowhere #overnight

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. ↗

— Frederick W. Smith

#concept #delivery #earn #feasible #fred

Overnight I became a cottage industry. ↗

— Jean Harris

#cottage #i #industry #overnight

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#becomes #before #business #invested #knows

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. ↗

— Shania Twain

#come and go #down #feather #go #life

But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party. ↗

— Earl Browder

#change #coats #consequently #did #efforts

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#change #even #expect #foot #i

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#also #because #big #dignity #erased

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#actress #couple #give #give me #i