Business Minds Mugs

'I consider myself to be a sophisticated investor. I would never invest in penny stocks. I lost all of my money investing with a brokerage specializing in nickel stocks.'

"The only thing I'm sensing is an entrepreneurial spirit."

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

"If a stock falls in the market, and it had no investors, does it really lose its value?"

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

Employee won't think about work outside of box

"That's Paul, he's our head of partnerships..."

'I am willing to concede that the company has been underperforming of late...'

"You're a genius, Shaw. This is an idea whose copyright has expired."

US v.s. Tech Giants

Target your customer.

'Our job will be to drag the competition down to our level.'

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

'I'd like to explain my ideas for economy within the company.'

'Ask yourself, 'What is it I'm not doing?', and then ask yourself, 'What is it I'm doing too much?'.'

"Well, there's nowhere to go but up."

'I'd put it on the back burner, but the stove's been repossessed.'

"If we can't find the way forward, let's find the way back."

"Good question: When can you see your families?"

Men in office, pose as Rodin's: The Thinker. A sign on the wall reads: THINK.

"You've got one day to come up with something new and exciting yet safe and time tested."

'As you know, Wilson, our CEO screwed up big time, so he was fired and gets a big bonus. But because of his mistakes, you just get fired.'

Impatient Oil Drillers LTD.

Bank Loans - Thank you, I shall always be in your debt.

'Alternatively you can just focus on the CUSTOMER!'

"The margin of error is plus or minus one hundred percent."

"Now that I've made that perfectly clear..."

"I can't understand it, we did quite well in the first three quarters.

"Profits. Good thing or the greatest thing?"

"Actually, I worked my way up from ideas and you can too!"

"That's a new side effect of our mission to keep things together."

For sale

"Maybe we'd do better if we called ourselves 'baristas'."

"There sits the unvarnished truth. Now, how shall we interpret it to our advantage?"

"Thanks to my cost-cutting policies, profits are up 59%."