However, because of the proliferation
of overnight success stories, too many founders dive into entrepreneurship without a plan, limiting their chances of fortune and glory.
Of course there are plenty
of overnight success stories, but how do you establish your reputation, your brand, a loyal readership who will buy every new book you release?
«I'd call this an 11 -
year overnight success story,» Raj Nair, Ford Motor's chief technology officer last week told USA TODAY, citing as a starting point Ford's entry into the early DARPA Grand Challenge for robotic cars.
Stories like Dawson's seem
like overnight success stories, but if you look a little closer, almost every author and entrepreneur failed before succeeding.
In that time, there's been an amazing amount of activity, with people claiming left and right that self - publishing has arrived along with
amazing overnight success stories — the kind that used to be few and far between.
Sure, every once in a blue moon someone wins, and there's nothing people love more than
an overnight success story.
The result is
an overnight success story that was 23 years in the making — and a company that is less expensive to run and more profitable than it was before it shifted away from hosting.
But this is
no overnight success story.
No overnight success stories.
There are
overnight success stories, and then there's appearing in three consecutive smashes in one calendar year, despite having no major starring roles on your resumé before...
Whether an artist is working in front of the camera, behind the camera, or in a recording studio, the film industry is perpetually the home of working ten or twenty years to become
an overnight success story.
«This is not
an overnight success story.
An author who finds an agent and a publisher quickly and when her book debuts it hits # 1 on the NY Times Bestseller List and then gets turned into a movie and she becomes
an overnight success story.
Publishing any book means that you have to be prepared to play the long game, and even authors who end up selling lots of books usually aren't
an overnight success story.
It wasn't just
some overnight success story, even if it seems that way.
This is
no overnight success story.
What about other so called «
overnight success stories» in the fiction writing world?
Dividend growth investing is not a get rich quick or
overnight success story.
I thought for years that I'd somehow stumble across a genius idea to turn me into a dotcom millionaire, in the same way as I used to dream about racing cars and motorbikes, or becoming a rock star... It takes a while to realise that
the overnight success stories you read about generally follow years of work and effort, and that there are lots of other people chasing the same ideas, inspired by the same overnight success stories.
This was not
an overnight success story.
Felix may have become
an overnight success story according to all the news outlets, but we all know there's more to the story of his recent accomplishment.