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.

Who should be the next eco-club president? The most vegan? The most carbon neutral? The most into solar? Eco-club. But we need someone who will attract kids to the environmental cause. Then it's obvious. The most popular. Or most athletic!

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

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

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

"Are you OK hun?"

I have to get the Positive Thinker...

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

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

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

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."

Teen's Comet

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

"It's a long term goal."

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

"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."

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

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

'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."

"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?'

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

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

Desk at the Horizon

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