Corporate Philosopher Mugs

"Miss Dugan, will you send someone in here who can distinguish right from wrong?"

' I used to lead by example but it was too much work.'

'Legal says we should be fine - provided no one left a paper trail.'

"On the one hand, we'll burn in hell; on the other, that's a lot of money."

'I eliminated all the platitudes and cliche statements, from your mission statement, and I'm left with this blank sheet of paper.'

'I hate his kind. They use their integrity and hard work to advance their careers.'

"But if I'm not a senior collateral analyst for a high-volume, global marketing corporation...who am I?"

"Every decision we made was legal, ethical and stupid."

'When did we lose our way, Mike? When did our reckless pursuit of short-term, quasi-legal profits take precedence over prudent, far-sighted corporate growth? When, Mike, when?'

'Consensus on a Friday afternoon...what a lovely way to begin the weekend!'

'If i had my life to live over again... I'd make the same mistakes sooner'

'They say money can't buy happiness. Find out what can.'

"Sage nodding got me where I am today."

"It's just us today. Campbell called in ethical."

Genius

'I'm worried, the software that can replace me is becoming more affordable.'

'You said you wanted more responsibility, so I'm making you responsible for everything that goes wrong.'

"Ignore me."

"Technology progress is being held up because of ethical concerns. We're hoping to eradicate ethics in our lifetime."

Ethics Dept: Right, That Gray Area, Wrong.

"Does anyone have even the vaguest idea of what we actually DO?"

"Is it my fault he guessed the wrong hand?"

Career Progression Ladder

"I'm not asking for a raise. All I'm asking for is a little warmth and human understanding."

I'm weighing the risk against the reward.

Guru, Inc: VP Parables, VP Allegories, VP Enigmas, VP Riddles.

'Flexibility means, yesterday's nonsense is today's corporate policy!'

'Life isn't all about the money.It's all about the little people you step on along the way.'

'I used to take life one day at a time. Now I take it one crisis at a time.'

'Management is all about 'empathy', about developing positive, supportive and healthy relationships with colleagues and staff... and if you can't get that through your thick skull then you'll be as useless as you look!'

Old CEO: 'do not resuscitate.'

Ethics (with an eye on the bottom line) committee.

Louie's Bakery.

Even if you're a CEO at a big corporation, you're still just a CEO at a big corporation.

"This is Stan, He's helping us look beneath the surface of reality to transcendent truths, in order to make a buck."