Executive Dreamer Gifts

'If I'd had someone to help me when I started, I might have made CEO...actually, I did make CEO, but you know what I mean.'

'The good news is we're projecting a profit. The bad news is none of us will be alive then.'

"That one, too. They all look like big bags of money."

"No, you can't be be me, but I'm flattered you asked."

"Face it, Larry. We're small fish and des Moines isn't that big a pond."

"Can't you rake the leaves? I'm raking in cash."

"I deserve this and much, much more."

"Is there any way we can skip right to adulthood and start being in charge?"

'I have everything a man could want - But I've still managed to hang onto my petty ambitions.'

Like many in his profession, Herb spent years in obscurity, paying his dues, practicing his chops and performing on street corners before landing his first gig as a CEO.

"With great power comes great responsibility. But that second part's suuuper easy to rationalize away."

Joey discovers the difference between coffee beans and jelly beans.

Lemonade Inc.

"I want to make it before I hit thirty."

Money Plant.

'Dude, touring with a punk rock band was fun, but what I'd really like to do is be CEO of a fortune 500 company.'

"When I grow up, I'm going to be a suit."

"Being my own boss sounds fun but I wouldn't be able to motivate myself."

'You'll be broadening up your horizons in a cubicle.'

'I want to see more blue sky thinking.'

'Ah, the Bermuda Rectangle for files.'

"Ambitions... to make a career change from tourism to sales."

"Intrapreneuring chief- how about a glass on the house?"

Thinking outside the cubicle

"Sometimes, when business is brisk, I have to settle for no nap at all."

"Yes, I know, Munger. But Wallace Stevens didn't scribble his damned verses on company time."

"I've got an office and I've got a window, but I wouldn't say I've got a window office."

Imagine there's no office...

"Cushy job, corner office with a view - everything you've ever wanted is just through those windows."

"It's not that I'm lazy. But I envisage myself not so much climbing the corporate ladder, as taking the corporate elevator."

'I just happened to be in the right place at the right time to make CEO.'

"No I wouldn't say you're ahead of your time. More like 'outside of it'."

"Every single day, guys ask you for advice about women, work, sports... Haven't you ever even heard of the law of supply and demand?. . .I'd be glad to steer the downtrodden and the forlorn your way for a mere 82% of the man-to-man-talk fee."

Time Clock.

"We don't believe in miracles. We rely on them."