Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

- Eskinder Nega

Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.

- Jay Samit

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.

- Julius Erving

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'

- Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

The Greek people do not want to exit the euro. And I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay in the euro zone.

- George Papandreou

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

- George Burns

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

- Gabe Newell

We must not lose time, neither for dealing in a suitable way with the question of the United Kingdom's exit, nor for providing a new impetus for the E.U.

- Francois Hollande

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

- Edward Lampert

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

- Aesop

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

- Elizabeth Kenny

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

- Eric Burdon

When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit.

- Douglas Brinkley

Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit.

- Douglas Alexander

In the Valley, what's happened is you have entrepreneurs that just want to fill a hole in the market and have a rich exit.

- Danny Rimer

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

- Chris Eigeman

We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

- Barney Ross

My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.'

- Andy Grove