Competitive Strategy Pillows

'You could be a constant inspiration for us to come up with a plan to get a leg up on our competition...you're hired!'

Mergers Acquisitions

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

'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

"This position has become very important to the company."

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

"So the plan is to fly everyone for free. But we'll charge $400.00 per bag."

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

"Marshall, somewhere out there, just waiting for us, is a loophole in the system."

"These projections don't make sparkles shoot out my ass."

"Can I savor this for a few moments? The ball's never been in my court before!"

"Here's what I'm gonna do."

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

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

'Our product flooded the market... Before backing up a deluge of consumer complaints!'

Foreign Markets with Big Barriers

A fight in the Boardroom.

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

'There's good news and bad news, J. B. - we now control 51% of this corporation's stock!'

Businessman on stilts: 'I had to step over a lot of people to get where I am today.'

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

'It has come to my attention that we need to hedge against our five-year plan.'

"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?

The Solar System (after deregulation)

"Gentlemen, we're missing a great opportunity by not hitching this company to the current tailspin."

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

"Well, it looks like the merger is off."

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

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

'The Board has chosen you to handle the restructuring because you have no heart.'

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