Arms Quote by Larry Holmes

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

— John Cooper Clarke

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

— Monty Hall

I was essentially bankrupt at the age of 16. That almost near-death experience kind of built the next success for me in business.

— Michael G. Rubin

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

— Adrien Brody

I'm an overnight success, 20 years in the making.

— Chris McCausland

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

— Elrey Borge Jeppesen

I was a 17-year overnight success really. I think I earned it.

— Shakin' Stevens

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

— Johnny Olson

I made my first million very young, in the fashion business. By my mid-20s I was the chairman of two public companies, way out…

— Touker Suleyman

It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.

— Stirling Moss

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more…

— Donald Trump

I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built…

— Graham Norton