Last year, Oprah Winfrey tossed her hat into the ring with O: The Oprah Magazine, a co-venture of the Harpo Entertainment Group and Hearst Magazines that has become the most instantly successful magazine to be introduced in decades.
"They came out of nowhere and on a comparative basis, the Marriott was instantly successful," Mr. McConnell said.
The Auto-Train was instantly successful, and it operated in the black for its first five years.
His witty, episodic accounts of the kindly, naive Samuel Pickwick and his friends in the Pickwick Club were instantly successful in their own right, however, and made Dickens a literary sensation.
Plante was instantly successful; Fred Hunt, the general manager of the Bisons, told Kenny Reardon, Montreal's recruiting manager, that, "he's [Plante] the biggest attraction since the good old days of Terry Sawchuk".
Her mission was accomplished when she launched Rewire Me in the spring of 2013, an instantly successful website community of seekers looking to heighten their mental, physical, and spiritual self-awareness.
If the premise of a fake psychic helping the police sounds familiar, you may have caught Channel 5's Simon Baker-sThering The Mentalist, which debuted in the US after Psych and was instantly successful.
Tom Bradby, who later succeeded him, described the appointment as "bold, imaginative and instantly successful".
Many of the Montgomery departees joined a new and instantly successful firm founded by Montgomery's former boss, Thomas Weisel.
