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.

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"It's a long term goal."

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

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

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

"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!"

'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."

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

'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.

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

"Progress is coming right along!"

Desk at the Horizon

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

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

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

'I thought I'd put in the details later.'