Business Tactic Lover Gifts

'I must have missed something. When did we become profit-making?'

"It's Swamp & Swallow - they're making an offer we can't refuse!"

"That's Hicks from the corporate office. He's adorable, but trust me—when it comes to acquisitions, he's an animal!"

Takeovers.

"I love fast break business success."

'Check with legal and find out -- maybe we're a non-profit.'

'Competition is good...unless it's too good.'

'I gotta bad feeling about this.'

'Jones, somewhere out there, we've lost our common sense. I want you to go and bring it back.'

A war would have been bad enough, but losing Alsace-Lorraine in a poker game?

'Larry, you have everything it takes to go far in this company, but a word of advice: lose the laugh.'

"I was able to negotiate it from a hostile takeover to an uneasy alliance."

Rugby - Interesting line-out tactics.

'This is Osgood, our most essential man -- he thinks up new ways to limit warranties!'

The Appearance of the Gatling Machine-Gun in 1864 caught the world by surprise.

"Hi, I'm Cindy, the company's most toxic employee!"

'Remember, Henderson - Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and you've sacrificed your leverage.'

I was hoping you might convince him by demonstrating the quality of the product.

"You can't expect to get anywhere in business without making an enemy or two, Filmeyer."

"It's a dog-eat-dog economy. And I'm the Doberman."

'Don't forget the plan - When he gets weak from laughing - Hit him with your left!'

ISIS needle in a haystack.

'Do you want to talk to the man in charge or the woman that knows what's going on?'

"Here is the campaign strategy and here are the after-the-fact excuses."

"Remember, negotiating is like buying fruit. You don't know what you'll get until you squeeze 'em a bit."

"Since past performance doesn't guarantee future results I suppose it's conceivable you're correct."

So what happens when you told Armstrong you wouldn't recite that Sinclair Broadcasting script? Oh, nothing. Sinclair sued me for everything I own, that's all. But the joke's on them: I've set up different LLC's for every aspect of my life. So all they could get were the assets of the LLC that they paid. This opens up a whole world of possibilities. I knew forming Rudy-has-next-to-nada LLC was a good idea. I am going to miss my ten cents and my broken wiffle ball, though.

"Calm down, I'm just using the rules of modern competition."

"Clearly, this pair were up to something. . ."

Thanks to compromise they were moving closer.

Boss: 'Change is good!' Employees: 'Who's getting fired?'

"I was hoping for more from you 'Mission Statement' than, 'earn a s******d of money'!"

'I learned everything I need to know about negotiating from watching professional wrestling.'

'He was brought up with a moral, compassionate and philanthropic upbringing, but by putting his nose to the grind stone, he managed to surmount those handicaps.'

"We're well positioned for another hostile takeover."