Executive Life Enthusiast Gifts

"I've got a lot on my plate right now. For starters, I need to sharpen my pencil, refill my coffee and get a new comb."

'Now that I have your attention...'

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

"Stock options for your thoughts."

'Ladies and gents, the executive-worker pay ratio is not what it used to be!'

'Not exactly what I meant by job creation.'

Baby On Boardroom

"If CEO pay packets aren't a problem, why doesn't everyone get one?"

"Where do you expect to be ten years from now?"

"The jury didn't buy my defense that CEOs just want to have fun."

"No need to remind me. I'm well aware that I've forgotten completely about you."

"Profits. Good thing or the greatest thing?"

'He was always too busy to sit for his portrait.'

"You're an overweight, overpaid, over-the-hill senior executive, Dalrymple. What did you have in mind to remedy that situation?"

"It drives me MAD when people whine about the amount top management get paid. . ."

'Have you seen the ruddy margins the Chinese expect us to take up for this work?'

Man frozen in portrait pose.

'It's lonely at the top.'

'Another corporation I wouldn't have minded so much, but this was a hostile takeover by my secretary!'

"Unfortunately, Whitcomb, I am suffering from compassion fatigue."

I Have A Closed Mind.

"Not bad! ...For a duck."

'Gosh, who'd have guessed that when I said I'd have my people call your people, they'd come up with something like THIS?'

"If you're going to grub for something, it might as well be money."

"Sorry, that was the three cups of coffee, four cans of red bull, and double dose of Paxil talking."

'So, she's decided to buy the helicopter.'

"Patel confirmed"

'Surround our project with lots of useless extras so our critics have something to pick at while we ram our proposals through.'

Dealmobile.

'May I play through please?'

'The accountants can wait, Tell them I'm tied up in a meeting with representatives from Pomerol Pommard,'

"It helps me stay focused on what matters most."

"Dear, what the name of that company I'm the CEO of again?"

The buck stops here

'It's pretty common among cruising executives, Mrs. Johnson... we call it non-jet-lag.'