Business Brainstormer Mugs

"OK, let's hear it. But I'm warning you, it better not be another one of your half-baked ideas."

'You never did have any business acumen!'

'We have this piece of the Web 2.0 puzzle but we need the rest.'

"So we're agreed our strategy is to agree strategies for identifying a strategy that will guide us to increase profits."

"Is this a bad time for our feedback meeting?"

'You have to spend money to make money.'

'Your would have to ask if there were any questions.'

'Please, Norman - Not another one of your big ideas.'

"Well, Mr. Shoddy, if we were to approve your business loan, you'd really need to change the name of your company."

And elevator with 'up', 'down', and 'pitches' buttons

Small Business Adviser.

'I'm sick and tired of you and your 'get rich quick' schemes.'

"Here, we want movers, but not shakers."

"We small retailers have to stick together."

"I'm going on Dragons Den with this, the one-brush-toothbrush."

Smoke and Mirrors: Harold couldn't work out why his new store wasn't getting any customers.

"I think our marketing strategy needs to be a little more sophisticated than just shouting 'give us all your money'!"

New Ideas in Business.

Overly optimistic and overly pessimistic executives

"You can file as a limited liability company in this State, but you'll be subject to a 'Not So Fast, Buddy' franchise fee."

'If content is king, why doesn't anybody want to pay for it.'

'Run it by legal and then a couple of talk-show hosts.'

'That's it?!...That's your business model?!?..'

Our parent company is not pleased with our work. They want all of us to register for a few remedial MBA courses.

'You're a bright young kid...but you gotta understand, no new ideas when the bread is only half baked!!'

"I'm really great thanks. The boss loves my ideas, he says I'm ahead of my time!" "Hi John, how are you? Good meeting?"

"So the plan is to fly everyone for free. But we'll charge $400.00 per bag."

Apples for sale

The Department of Really Stupid Ideas: 'Most people think they just appear out of thin air! But the truth is, there's a great deal of very hard work involved!'

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

"The leadership team wants a catchy acronym for a new social media app they're calling Functional Applied Relationship Tracker. Any suggestions?"

Thinking Gears

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

'It has come to my attention that we need to hedge against our five-year plan.'

' A good idea '