Management Master Mugs

"I just don't think you would be happy working here."

"I've decided to enter the London marathon next year...it gives me a chance to use my management skills, planning, target setting."

'We invest so much money in training staff...it's a mystery to me why businesses would risk losing them.'

Weekday Morning Hell Bingo

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

'Don't worry. No one else knows what they are doing either.'

'I'm going to refer you to a specialist in that yucky feeling.'

"This the first time you guys ever installed an above-ground pool?"

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

'Now then - I just wanted to see how you handle pressure, Mr. Boyle.'

'Kroft, Kroft, Kroft...to thine own demographic be true!'

"My best managerial trait is that I dig for answers until I get them between my teeth. My worst trait is that sometimes I bury them."

"We structured the deal so it won't make any sense to you."

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

"He thought this would illustrate the company hierarchy more clearly than the organizational chart."

"Unless one is a humorist, Haskins. One should avoid attempts at humor."

"I always try to give out at least one genuine compliment per day. I don't always succeed."

Whack-a-mole CEO.

"I can't sit down. Don't you remember? I worked my butt off for you."

'I'm looking for an assistant who knows my job, can do my job, but has no interest in having my job.'

'Ask yourself, 'What is it I'm not doing?', and then ask yourself, 'What is it I'm doing too much?'.'

'...And for the low visibility positions we can bring people on board who can, you know...do things.'

Man mourns the loss of his king after being checkmated.

'I like to greet the new team members myself.'

"Leadership ISN'T just about trying to be BETTER than everyone else!"

"If you really want to get ahead you'll need to stop licking your own butt and start licking mine."

'Now, who owns this project?'

"The team needs LEADERSHIP, anyone have a view on that?"

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

'I must say, I do like your incentive program.'

'I can't get out! -- I lost the owner's manual!'

'Well I like to think every cloud has a silver lining.'

Traffic Management Strategic Group

'You'll never succeed until the kissing up becomes instinctual.'

'It's really lonely at the top of a dot.com company.'