Investment Innovator Mugs

'Now that's the kind of 'outside the box' thinking I've been talking about.'

'My first piece of advice is not to put all your eggs in one basket.'

"We have a new line of designer hedge funds...the Topiary Group."

'You won't lose any more money. We're the first fund with a GPS tracking system.'

Tax shelters of the rich and famous

"I want to switch all my municipal bonds into stocks, my stocks into T-bill and my T-bills into municipal bonds."

'I've decided to centralize my operations. Everything will be in my ipad.'

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

"Hmmm ... that's interesting. Now, what about ideas that don't suck - do you have any of those?"

"You're a genius, Shaw. This is an idea whose copyright has expired."

Thanks to the financial business scientists know it for sure now - Black Holes really exist!

Blue sky thinking

A secretary at a desk with a nameplate the says Dot Com.

Solar Frankenstein

GPC needs to make its new formula foolproof.

'She posted her first blog today.'

"Yes, also it keeps you fit."

'Frankly, I'm not sure this whole idea-sharing thing is working.'

"OK team, we need innovative solutions and we need 'em fast!"

'I want to see more blue sky thinking.'

Counting dollars

Aluminium Henge

Lateral Thinking - Not Out & Not In trays.

'Have your people facebook my people.'

"I'm really great thanks. The boss loves my ideas, he says I'm ahead of my time!" "Hi John, how are you? Good meeting?"

Pig's Human Bank

Suggestion and 'outside-the-box' suggestions.

'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?'

"The pension crisis prompted me to consider alternative invstments. Like Roulette."

"That 'give it away free' strategy certainly worked well."

'We can't rely upon pas successes...we have to radically restructure the way we work, change our core values and build form the ground up.'

'This is a 'million dollar idea', Simms, unfortunately, our debt is two million dollars.'

"In the marketplace of ideas, we may not have the best ideas, but we have the best marketing."

A man stealing another person's ideas

'Dammit, Gentlemen! We need someone who's not afraid to 'poop outside the box'!'