Famous Exit Strategy Quotes

Every company needs an exit strategy and an exit plan. Ideally, the exit strategy should be agreed upon by the founders before the first dollar of investment goes into the company. ~ Basil Peters

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy. ~ Edward Lampert

I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death. ~ Craig Newmark

Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is. ~ George W. Bush

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks. ~ William Hague

The Democrats say that President Bush doesn't have an exit strategy for Iraq. Of course he does. If things don't go well, he exits in November. ~ Jay Leno

We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave. ~ Max Cleland

President Obama is sending a couple hundred troops to Iraq. We spent six years trying to figure a way to get out of Iraq. And now we're back. But this time there is an exit strategy. Barack Obama has an exit strategy. In 2016, he's gone. ~ David Letterman

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me. ~ Juan Cole

It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars. ~ Russ Carnahan

If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy. ~ Mark McKinnon

What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success. ~ Donald Rumsfeld

The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning. ~ Leon Wieseltier

If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources. ~ Jon Huntsman, Jr.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history . ~ Jacques Ellul

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one. ~ Bruce Sterling

The essential prerequisite for an acceptable exit strategy is a sustainable outcome, not an arbitrary time limit. ~ Richard Caplan

In a dark tunnel all we need is to move because no exit shall ever appear before us by itself! Move is the very exit itself where there seems to be no exit! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Have an exit strategy. Just in case your current plan doesn't work, always know what your endgame is and where you're going next. ~ Robyn Carr

If you entered a tunnel, you can be sure that the tunnel has at least one exit! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy. ~ Michael Phelps

Every exit is an entrance to someplace else. ~ Patti LaBelle

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit! ~ Augustus

I don't want to be famous for being famous. ~ Kelli O'Hara

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ~ Van Morrison

Arabella did not need backup. Most of the time she was the backup, the field artillery, and the air support, but Nevada taught me to always have an exit strategy. ~ Ilona Andrews

Most change strategy models are not very strategic – change strategy is an important lynchpin between business strategy and change tactics. ~ Paul Gibbons

When my soul steps to exit this frame, I will be reincarnated as rain. ~ Eyedea

Today, the optimum financial strategy for most technology entrepreneurs is to raise money from angels and plan an early exit to a large company in just a few years for under $30 million. ~ Basil Peters

Thinking of a series of dreams
Where the time and the tempo fly
And there's no exit in any direction
'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes ~ Bob Dylan

If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an exit strategy. ~ Kelvin Kwa

Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones ~ Ivan Chtcheglov

All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. ~ Sun Tzu

I you tell a lie, you have to tell ten more to keep it alive. A story is just a lie with a good exit strategy. ~ Kelvin Kwa

This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all. ~ George W. Bush

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. ~ Michael E. Porter

The connection between my mouth and brain are faulty, as usual, and I shout, "Exit only! It's exit only! ~ Helena Hunting

An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reversed. A palindrome: gut-tug. ~ Lorrie Moore

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. ~ Ian McEwan

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. ~ Howard Schultz

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy. ~ Bill Vaughan

The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy. ~ Pete Hegseth

Strategy is not about doing things ... it's about doing things deliberately. ~ Buffi Neal

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it. ~ Eric Ries

My first show was 'No Exit.' You couldn't find a more pretentious beginning, but it also instilled some sense of quality. ~ Chris Eigeman

With tact, exit from the world I've created, and we never have to speak of those good times again. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous. ~ Bo Burnham

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore. ~ Dean Koontz

The exit is usually where the entrance was. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Change allows us to exit the comfortable and enter the improved. ~ David Cottrell

Creating great content that educates and informs is always the best marketing strategy. ~ David Meerman Scott

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing. ~ John Hewson

We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wish you'd find the exit out of my head. ~ Sylvia Plath

The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well. ~ Vladimir Kramnik

Testing Testing, im just suggesting. you and i might not be the best thing. Exit exit somehow i guessed it right, right! ~ Josh Ramsay

We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us. ~ Antonis Samaras

Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete. ~ Simon Sinek

No.' She took my hand. 'Let's make a French exit.' 'What's a French exit?' 'It's when you leave without saying goodbye.' 'I've never heard that before.' A French exit; no thank you for having me, no I've had a lovely time. To just walk away, cool and aloof. I wondered if I could. ~ David Nicholls

Congress and the American people have good reason to fear that we are heading toward another permanent garrison of Americans in a Balkan country where our mission is confused, and our exit strategy a complete mystery. ~ John McCain

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process. ~ Mariana Mazzucato

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable. ~ Quint Studer

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. ~ Peter Carey

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous. ~ Dallas Clayton

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame. ~ Johnathon Schaech

Over time I tried everything from "the good girl" with my "perform-perfect-please" routine, to clove-smoking poet, angry activist, corporate climber, and out-of-control party girl. At first glance these may seem like reasonable, if not predictable, developmental stages, but they were more than that for me. All of my stages were different suits of armor that kept me from becoming too engaged and too vulnerable. Each strategy was built on the same premise: Keep everyone at a safe distance and always have an exit strategy. ~ Brene Brown

Just because there is no perceivable alternate exit does not mean another exit does not exist. I believe there may indeed be a way to escape. ~ Colleen Houck

Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation. ~ Hamdi Ulukaya

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell. ~ Jack Welch

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit. ~ John Cheever

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion. ~ Gary North

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't. ~ Trey Parker

Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you."
"I doubt it. ~ Madeline Miller

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results. ~ Seth Godin

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous. ~ Noomi Rapace

I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music. ~ Kanye West

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think. ~ Dolph Lundgren

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ~ Tom Stoppard

The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy. ~ Clayton Christensen

My exit is the result of too many entrees. ~ Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return. ~ Frida Kahlo

The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it's the start of purgatory. ~ Vivek Wadhwa

If you are flammable and have legs, you are not blocking a fire exit. ~ Mitch Hedberg

Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure. ~ Peter Drucker

The prospect of one day being hauled out of the canal by yet another old enemy was hard for France to swallow, even more so when British and French defence specialists discussed their exit strategy in case of an overwhelming Soviet attack, and the Brits proposed a massive evacuation via Dunkirk. ~ Stephen Clarke

There is this power that comes with being famous. ~ Rod Stewart

Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say." He said something similar now: "Excuses don't win a game. You should try strategy. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent. ~ Rachel Sklar

It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause. ~ John F. Kerry

If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse - we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world. ~ William J. Clinton

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people. ~ Charlie Kaufman

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent. ~ Kat Dennings

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms. ~ Lucas Papademos

Act smarter than you are and always know where your exit is in case you get into too much trouble. ~ Vanilla Ice

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director. ~ Andrew Lau

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate. ~ John Podhoretz

Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy. ~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented. ~ Clayton M Christensen

Strategy is born when a calculated risk meets an educated guess ~ Samer Chidiac

Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn. ~ Jim Starlin