Ambition Ponderer Mugs

'My dad is pushing me to become an alpha male, but frankly, I'd rather be a poet...'

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

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

The Salesman

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.

"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.'

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

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

Totalitarian Humour

"I knew you were mad when I found nettles in my fig leaf drawer."

'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."

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

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

"You used to be that ambitious."

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

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

"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."

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

"Oh goody! It's just like the Columbian Exposition of 1893."

"It's a long term goal."

'I didn't expect to have remote controls here.'

Teen's Comet

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

'How worse? Give me the worst-case scenario.'

'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's with kids nowadays? Walking upright's not good enough for you?"

What is possible/what is probable.

"Sure, but what have you invented lately?"

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