Ambition Advocate Mugs

"We all have to start at the bottom, Richard."

Beware the Dog: 'Hopefully I'll grow into the job...'

"This could be the year someone actually goes up there."

And here's the office floor plan. The numbers indicate the recommended sequence in which to step on people on your way to the top.

The Salesman

'That's the first cubicle I ever worked in.'

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

"How can you have a meteoric rise to the top in a one-story building?"

'It could have been worse...she might have chosen banking.'

'What can you wish for?!... Oh, I don't know... Infinite wealth, beautiful women throwing themselves at your feet, fame and admiration, perhaps?... But, don't let me influence you.'

"I've finally arrived. The C.E.O. stopped saying 'who the hell are you' whenever he sees me."

If a moo can rise to the top, so can I.

"My daughter tells me you want to become a doctor."

'I've had a few short stories published, but I'd really like to write 'the Great American How to Write a Novel.''

'I fetch, but it hasn't helped my career any.'

"Obviously, I can't fly like you, but if you teach me, I can probably sing like you..."

"You used to be that ambitious."

"Keep up the good work and there'll probably be a nice promotion in it for me."

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

"Look at her...Gracie is intelligent, optimistic, ambitious..I wish she was one more thing."

'Oh no...I'm living the dream.'

"You'll find I'm highly motivated and ambitious...oh, is this your desk?"

Corporate Success

I'm willing to start at the bottom and work my way up to your job..

"It's a long term goal."

'We can't find a pond small enough where you'd be a big fish.'

"He's a psychopath with megalomanic tendencies...I like that in a candidate!"

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I... I... I..."

'In five year's time?... I see myself on that side of the desk telling you it's a great shame, thanks for all your hard work, but I'm going to have to let you go!'

What is possible/what is probable.

"I worked my way up from a goddamn steamboat - I am the American Dream."

"Shape up, son! You want to be a dung beetle the rest of your life?"

'It saves me the trouble of constantly asking myself 'What's my motivation?''

'Shouldn't you be somewhere clawing yourself to the top, or something?'

"I started out on a molehill - What about you?"