Ambitionist On Pause Gifts

'I used to be ambitious, but I find it easier to feel guilty about lack of ambition.'

Beware the Dog: 'Hopefully I'll grow into the job...'

What else is there to wish for?

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'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.

'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.''

"Where am I going to college? I thought this was college."

"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?"

'Oh no...I'm living the dream.'

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

"It's a long term goal."

'We can't find a pond small enough where you'd be a big fish.'

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

Corporate Success

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

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

'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.

"Have a career, and then if you want to try acting, you'll have my blessing."

"Why be a princess...when I can be a queen?"

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

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

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

Desk at the Horizon

"It's lonely at the top...But it beats being depressed at the bottom."

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

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

'You'll have to decide - do you want to be top management in a small pond, or bottom management in a big pond?'

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

". . . and they lived happily ever after. . . in an aspirational sort of way."