Business Book Aficionado Mugs

"The name of my new book? Winning Through Intimidation! Thanks for asking!"

'OK, team, let's review: when the arrow goes down, it means...?

"I've just never worked anyplace where the 'alpha male' was a woman."

'We have a strict don't-ask-don't-tell policy for salaries.'

"Damnit, executive-trainees don't have 'accidents'."

'Now this is exactly what I was referring to when I talked about 'scope creep'.'

Big Shot/Bigger Shot.

'I've collected my memos into one reasonably priced gift book.'

The little engine that could delegate.

"I always cry at mergers."

Businessman has Sterling Sign Shaved in Head.

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New must reading for the rising executive: '7 Habits of Highly Obsequious People.'

Business man reading 'Thinking Outside the Chair'

"You're an overweight, overpaid, over-the-hill senior executive, Dalrymple. What did you have in mind to remedy that situation?"

"Can you keep a secret, Fred? The truth is, I've never had a clue what curve it is I'm supposed to stay ahead of!"

'What do you mean by, your people do not want to get in touch with my 'kind' of people?'

"Here comes our first V.P., Mrs. Byers, now. Mrs. Byers is results-oriented."

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'I miss the 90s. The good old days of hostile takeovers.'

"Dear, it's the financial news. Seat belts fastened, seat backs in upright position."

'What the hell is a win-win situation?'

Two businessmen competing.

'Turn up the air conditioning. Panting always puts us at a disadvantage during negotiations.'

"The take over has been completed... they are now working on the sell out."

"Looks like somebody's compensating."

"It's our shareholders... They've lost that lovin' feeling."

My, my, we're justs a little overprotective of our propriety knowledge, aren't we?

"Now we'll all close our eyes and cover our ears, and the person who took the four hundred and twenty-eight million dollars will put it back."

'Reinvent yourself. You write off the whole thing as a business expense!'

Before The Merger.

'Hello, Executive Search? We're expanding again.. please send us over another gross of executives.'

"O.K. Will somebody please bring me up to date?"

"How dare you accuse me of running this company into the ground!"

'Most loyal employee in my department.'