M&a Maestro Mugs

'It's worse than outsourcing. Instead of hiring foreign labor, they got bought out by foreign management.'

"This is not permanent...we'll be back as soon as things start to look up."

Profit

'The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I think that luck is always right.'

'He's so rich, when he writes a cheque the bank bounces.'

Desk plaques: 'Money isn't everything' '...Which makes it no less awesome in my opinion.'

'I'm sorry but I'm afraid the corporation is going in a different direction.'

"We need to change, but WHEN?"

'Lion Tamer experience hey? Well, I have a project currently needing your management skills...'

"I'm not happy about what the economists are predicting."

"I can always tell when Philip is working on family finances. A 'cursor' appears on both sides of the computer screen."

"Basically, your new job here at the Treasury Department implementing the bailout is simple, Grayson, just grab and armful of money and run..."

'I'm going to practice on you before I start managing other people.'

'When investment bankers give parental advice'

"I need to increase my salary so I can increase my spending."

'Uh - oh... this looks like an unfriendly takeover!'

'For Harland, the only game in town is the bulls versus the bears...'

"I guess someone got up on the wrong side of the podium today."

'I think I must be ambidextrous. I can calculate interest with both sides of my brain.'

"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% budget allocation."

'Need I tell you the name of the game?'

'Now this is my kind of green!'

'I used to work for the Treasury Department, but there's no future in economic forecasts.'

'Howard's doing things he's always wanted to with his redundancy money.'

U.S. Credit Rating

"If I knew when this was going to end, it wouldn't be so stressful."

'And this is my strategic money reserve.'

Early Attempt at Quantitative Easing.

Woman at a desk with in out boxes marked Market Up Market Down.

"Tax evasion is like a cancer, it's growing exponentially!"

Bank cashier sits near sign: 'Please do not ask for credit, as refusal often offends'.

Wealth Juggler.

"This is bad work, Edwards! Bad! Bad! Bad! Bad!"

'If we're going to have a banking relationship, you'll have to trust me more than this.'

"Do you swear to calm the jittery financial markets, all the jittery financial markets and nothing but the jittery financial markets, so help you God?"