Business Strategy Sleuth Pillows

'How's the meeting going, Ed?'

"Is this to make me feel bad for not getting you that laptop?"

'You forget, I'm a blackbelt in powerpoint.'

"Forget five-year plans. Let's just figure out how to make it to lunch."

Phrenology bust with sections for different currencies.

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

Golly, �1m a year isn't too much. I don't know why your shareholders don't understand you.

"Tariffs love me...tariffs love me not..."

Hollywood Sign Developers

"Well, ordinary men have colleagues. Successful men have victims."

"Another job well done by your conflict resolution specialist."

Foreign Markets with Big Barriers

"How's everybody doing? I'm not boring you, am I?"

'The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I think that luck is always right.'

"Boss, the AI is actually smarter than all of us! It read our business forecast, jumped up and ran out laughing!"

Apart from your mother, who else thinks you're doing a good job as Chairman of the company?

'And I'm happy to say, that since the merger...'

'We're finding out that those 'wrongs' we made 'right' were actually right after all.'

"We need to reset our fiscal compass to the changing business horizon."

'I clawed my way to the top and then I clawed my way back to the middle.'

'As our new company logo, I'm not quite sure it's sending out the right message.'

'Asynchronous, collaborative, interactive - we're obviously on a roll.'

"You're just the man we're looking for. Come around to this side of the desk, and I'll gather up my things and get the heck out of here."

"Now, let's get out there and walk really fast to places we don't want to be."

Voice coming from wooden horse: 'Quiet Fanshaw! If this hostile take-over bid is going to work we've got to get right inside the boardroom.'

"Three weeks until the pitch, LOADS of time!"

'I want you to paddle against the current.'

'Don't worry. No one else knows what they are doing either.'

'Bad news, sir -- there's a leak in our think tank!'

"Delegating authority is good. Delegating blame is better."

"Who wants to hear a funny story about the third quarter?"

"Actual results indicate that the statistical analysis of the data which projections were based on may have been wrong."

'Do you want to tell them their department is being downsized again, or should I?'

'Gentlemen, we need a slogan!'

Bullseye!