Financial Decision-making Mugs

'Heads it's mortgage payment, tails it's 1st growth Bordeaux.'

'What I don't understand is how all three of us managed to get the figures wrong!'

"Forget five-year plans. Let's just figure out how to make it to lunch."

'Now that I have your attention...'

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

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

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

The day the stock market went UP.

"I’ve combined all your outstanding debt into what we here in the banking business like to call a honkin’ big loan."

"Bark or stare? Always a tough decision. Bark? Maybe stare? Whimper? Maybe? Meanwhile, stare."

'Please remember that these figures could be off as much as two dollars.'

'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.'

"When faced with a tricky ethical issue, I always ask the question, 'What's in it for me?'"

'It's rather unorthodox, but it appears the deposit refund on the empties will cover your first interest payment.'

"Work hard. Save money. Work hard. Save money. Work hard. Save money. Work hard. Save money. Yay!!! I died rich!"

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

"Some day, son, all this will be your ex-wife's."

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

"I'm from brokers without borders. Invest in deserted island reits!"

"We were able to retire 6 years early by canceling cable & eliminating anything fun."

'I am willing to concede that the company has been underperforming of late...'

"If I made as much as him, I could retire in a couple of days"

Will work for ETFs

Watering Money

After a day long meeting, the decision, as usual, is made in the hallway.

'Dammit - how do we get in on that gross national product?'

"Cash, Jordan. That's what separates man from the apes."

Procrastinator Foumdation: 'We're putting off the decision to fund you for at least another month...'

"As the executor for your mother's estate, let me say that she loved each of you, but she also loved Las Vegas."

'If only I'd spent as much time on my investment portfolio as I did on my lolly mix when I was a kid.'

I'm not making enough money to like you.

"This statement from your headmaster says that you can easily get a good degree...your bank manager says you can't."

'That's what I thought, finances are tight: She's switched to no-name cat food...'

Career Choices