Ambition Ponderers Gifts

"This is my exit strategy."

"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

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

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

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

'I hope you ain't got no tax up here!'

'It could have been worse...she might have chosen banking.'

"WOW, we're on top of the world!"

'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.

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

"You used to be that ambitious."

"Only one of my lives was a bowl of cherries."

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

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

"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?"

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

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

"It's a long term goal."

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

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

'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."

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

'It saves me the trouble of constantly asking myself 'What's my motivation?''

'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?'

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