Ambition Ponderers Pillows

"This is my exit strategy."

"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.

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

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

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

'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!"

"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.

'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.'

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

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

"You used to be that ambitious."

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

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

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

Desk at the Horizon

"If we had invented the phone and computer, we would be at the top of the food chain. What a blown opportunity."

'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?'

"Shape up, son! You want to be a dung beetle the rest of your life?"