Business Planning Season Pillows

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

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

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

Recycling bin for 'short term business plans'

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

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

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."

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

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

Business plan.

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

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

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

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

"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?"

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

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

'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."

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

'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?'