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"Look , Malcolm, I get it that you're ambitious. But can't you put that damn thing down just for a minute?"

"There comes a time, Little Buddy, when you have to just accept that you'll never be famous....that your life will never be adapted for television and that when you die, only five or six people will truly care."

Just Do It.

Relationship counselor: 'She started behaving strangely, and our man-machine interface has become unpredictable.'

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.

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

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

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

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

'I have everything a man could want - But I've still managed to hang onto my petty ambitions.'

"Of course, it may be one of those sting operations!"

"That thermostat I bought is smart. It knows how cheap I am, so it keeps our home freezing."

"Yes, I'm sure you do deserve further career advancement. But if I promote you again you'll have my job!"

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

Don't tell my wife. Dragon head.

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

"Ambitions... to make a career change from tourism to sales."

Corporate Success

"It's a long term goal."

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

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

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

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

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

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

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

'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."

"Please mum - not the baby photos."

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

'You'll have to decide - do you want to be top management in a small pond, or bottom management in a big pond?'

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

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

"So, professor, in a post-industrial robotic universe, what would be the role of politicians?"