Ambition Twisters Mugs

'I started at the bottom, running mazes in the lab.'

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.

"I don't have the lip for saxaphone."

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

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

"Look , Malcolm, I get it that you're ambitious. But can't you put that damn thing down just for a minute?"

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

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

"Okay! Okay! It's a draw!"

'I fetch, but it hasn't helped my career any.'

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

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

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

I'm a songbird. He's my lyricist.

Corporate Success

"It's a long term goal."

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

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

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

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

'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.

'Aunty Em!...Toto!...It's a twister...It's a twister!'

"I worked my way up from a goddamn steamboat - I am the American Dream."

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

"There's no denying that you are ambitious but we are looking for someone with more dress sense."

"Progress is coming right along!"

"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?'

Jack and the Beanstalk.

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

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

Desk at the Horizon

'I realize money can't buy happiness, so I'm just trying to improve the exchange rate.'

'If you can control your emotions I will make you a branch manager. Yippee.'