Commercialization Contemplator Mugs

"My career's in shreds, but on the bright side, so are my files."

"What I’ve learned is you have to look deep inside your heart and ask yourself, ‘What is it that she really wants to hear?’"

Not much money, glory, or praise

'Harold is the brains behind the Smudge-o-Rama mailer.'

That private little woodland walk you used to love now with a: Visitors' Experience Centre!

'Oh, the guru is up on the next peak -- I'm his agent.'

If I could sell my experience for half of what it cost me I could retire.

Guys looks in the mirror and sees himself as a prisoner.

"Can you give me your opinion on the 'Paid for' magazines debate?" "Sure...but it will cost you"

'Office of P.G.Barley and Clones'

US Dollar weakens.

"Which will it be - do we label it '20% free', and raise the price 20%, or label lit '40% free', and raise the price 40%?"

Commercial space travel is expensive.

'I am not my job... my job is not me... I do not need my job to give my life a purpose...' 'Hey, did you hear the news? We're all laid off!' 'Stupid affirmations!'

"I feel I blend in well with the holes in my career ladder."

'I'm not saying this is a deadend job, but you can forget a trophy wife.'

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

"I got rich through hard work." "Whose?"

"My only hope is that future generations honor this day of independence with a huge one-day sale."

Man reading magazine: 'International Procrastinator.'

'I spend the winter in Sarasota now, since I sold my entire list to telemarketers.'

'Ach - I always cringe when I look back at my early stuff.'

I don't see a future for me in my present job. They don't reward mediocrity.

China gets capitalistic in its own way...: 'The Tao is up!'

"We're going to spend £5M to put over the message that our product is so good it sells itself!"

"I'm at that sweet spot in my career...right between 'young and underpaid' and 'old and too expensive.'"

A long way towards retirement...

'The champ will make twenty million from this fight, mainly from selling advertising space on his shorts...'

Euro crisis

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. . . already marked down for clearance and it's not even Halloween yet."

'One day I'll stop to reflect on my career and marvel that I have time to reflect.'

"Now that's what I call a 'holy in the wall'".