Business Gifts

"No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?"

"We are neither hunters nor gatherers. We are accountants."

"It's a deal, but just to be on the safe side let's have our lawyers look at this handshake."

"I'll pause for a moment so you can let this information sink in."

"I thought it was legal-I wrote it on a legal pad."

"On Wall Street today, news of lower interest rates sent the stock market up, but then the expectation that these rates would be inflationary sent the market down, until the realization that lower rates might stimulate the sluggish economy pushed the mark

"Vision: It's what took a small workshop in the North Pole and turned it into the massive global enterprise we know today."

Collaboration

"I couldn't have said it better myself, Sarah, so I'll just repeat it a little bit louder."

'Stay with me now, people, because in Step C, things get a bit delicate.'

"And, while there's no reason yet to panic, I think it only prudent that we make preparations to panic."

Can't Do the Math/Won't Do the Math.

'Who vetted that leader?'

"I have a system."

"If only I'd thought to take my damn phone with me, I could be getting some work done."

'So, how bad is it? Who can bring me up to speed?'

"Someday all these anonymous accounts will belong to shell companies of which you will deny all knowledge."

Company man

Complaints and Gratitude.

"Run it by legal." "Run it by accounting."

'I don't get it...after all the budget cuts to streamline the work force, why aren't we moving faster.'

"We were hoping that you could work from work today."

'Now think, Harris, what did you do different on that day?'

'They presented us with an ironclad contract that we were able to totally reinterpret.'

"That's what I want to say. See if you can find some statistics to prove it."

'...any other business?'

"Honesty is the best policy, Fernbaugh, but it's not company policy."

"Any questions?"

"But on the positive side, money can't buy happiness, so who cares?"

'Basically it's a stock that if a chain of near miraculous events would happen to occur, you'd make a bundle.'

'And, unfortunately, accounting is reporting that 'enough' is no longer enough.'

'As a part of a cost-cutting experiment all of our safety measures will be replaced with these good luck charms.'

"First of all, forget everything you learned in obedience school."

"Didn't I just give you money for a start-up last week?"

'This contract proposal needs more work. I'm not experiencing any twinges of guilt over it.'