Ambition Ambassador Mugs

'Now that's devotion. Two broken arms and still working.'

Nothing Succeeds Like Confidence.

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

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.

"Are you OK hun?"

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

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

'And finally. . . where do you see yourself on the food chain 5 years from now?'

"So...do you have a job now?"

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 to get the Positive Thinker...

Girl in Yellow Jumper

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

"Kind words help the dairy cow produce good milk. They go in one ear and out the udder."

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

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

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

Teen's Comet

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

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

"It's a long term goal."

'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."

'Very impressive. Do you have any post-kindergarten education?'

"There's no denying that you are ambitious but we are looking for someone with more dress sense."

'I realize money can't buy happiness, so I'm just trying to improve the exchange rate.'

"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?'

Desk at the Horizon

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

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

"Do you have any hopeless little drongos?"