Initiation Enthusiast Gifts

'Welcome to the frat, Todd! OK, Bob. Your turn. If you want to be a member, you've got to let him get you riiiight up to the net before you snap the line.'

Team Leader

And here's the office floor plan. The numbers indicate the recommended sequence in which to step on people on your way to the top.

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

'That's the first cubicle I ever worked in.'

'Couldn't you think of anything to say to Herb and Mary? They were nice enough to invite us over.'

'I chose my field on what would put the most impressive initials after my name.'

If a moo can rise to the top, so can I.

"I've finally arrived. The C.E.O. stopped saying 'who the hell are you' whenever he sees me."

The Smell of Fear

"We finally found a way to bottle enthusiasm."

"He's a psychopath with megalomanic tendencies...I like that in a candidate!"

"Look at her...Gracie is intelligent, optimistic, ambitious..I wish she was one more thing."

"You'll find I'm highly motivated and ambitious...oh, is this your desk?"

"It's a long term goal."

I am your BIGGEST fan!

"Keep up the good work and there'll probably be a nice promotion in it for me."

I'm willing to start at the bottom and work my way up to your job..

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

'In five year's time?... I see myself on that side of the desk telling you it's a great shame, thanks for all your hard work, but I'm going to have to let you go!'

What is possible/what is probable.

"I started out on a molehill - What about you?"

Desk at the Horizon

'Shouldn't you be somewhere clawing yourself to the top, or something?'

'You'll have to decide - do you want to be top management in a small pond, or bottom management in a big pond?'

"Shape up, son! You want to be a dung beetle the rest of your life?"

Christopher Nolan has made some great films, but there is an Inception!

"There's no denying that you are ambitious but we are looking for someone with more dress sense."

'I realize money can't buy happiness, so I'm just trying to improve the exchange rate.'

'If you can control your emotions I will make you a branch manager. Yippee.'

'I thought I'd put in the details later.'

"I started out fetching."

'When I reach the top, Henderson, I won't forget all the little people I climbed over to get there.'

Businessmen's Dreams

Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.