Business Planning Season Gifts

"Of course this'll be a great year. The data, sales projections, customer surveys, and my mom all think so."

"Looks like we found the issue."

'I think you are taking this elevator pitch way too literally'.

'You're off the plane, Hal. Put the laptop on your desk.'

Maybe it's now time to review our customer care strategy!"

"I think we should try something a little simpler."

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"I think your going to need a business plan."

"I'm not only a Guardian Angel, I'm also an expert at turnarounds."

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

"Is it too late for me to stop poo pooing his expansion plan?"

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

Businessman at the deep end.

'Here is my proposal for making our department more productive. The proposal contains my best cognitive distortions.'

"Yes very good, but when I say I need to see your business model before agreeing any loan, I mean your strategy."

'Let's make it cutting edge...with a traditional feel.'

"I strongly feel we need to start thinking inside the box again."

Business plan.

"He's really excited about this new proposal to let staff take over services."

'It's good, but it's not good-to-go.'

"Your entire business plan is to get a loan from me?"

"Right before I die I'm going to swallow a bag of popcorn kernels."

"I thought an illogical framework would work better."

"I said, 'Don't worry, I still have a few tricks up my sleeve.' That's when he called my bluff."

"So what do you really think of my business plan?"

'One day, after they unfreeze my DNA, this will all be mine again.'

'I've studied the issues, reviewed the facts, considered all the alternatives and decided 'The hell with it'.'

"Remember, we've got to dig down together as a team to create the right foundation that will benefit this entire project as a hole."

"I'm hoping to sell my startup - a chain of fast-food meditation centers - to Google for seven figures."

'Well, that's a helluva great business plan... What have you done before you founded a management consultancy, Mr... umh... Smith?'

'Did you finish the business plan and out look for the next five years?'

'Naughty, nice, nice, nice, naughty, nice. This you call a business plan?'

"So that's my presentation: Could I have 100 million for the startup?"

'That's it? That's your backup plan?'