Ambition Analyzers Mugs

Job Interview, "This company wants a person who is both ruthless and intelligent but who is also too dumb to want to try for my 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

My brilliant career

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

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

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

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

'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."

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

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

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

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

"You used to be that ambitious."

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

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

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

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

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

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

"It's a long term goal."

"It's not that I'm lazy. But I envisage myself not so much climbing the corporate ladder, as taking the corporate elevator."

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

Teen's Comet

"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?"