Maverick Mentor Gifts

"I can do this to anybody's coffee, Phil."

"Delegating authority is good. Delegating blame is better."

"Just one more thump. . . just one more thump."

'Tomorrow's special is fish, so wear the flounder suit.'

'As I see it, our choices are 'no' and 'hell no'.'

'I want ideas so bold, so wildly innovative, so undeniably brilliant that they retain a shred of originality after everyone picks them to pieces.'

Elevator Pitch

"How's this for transparency: Our product isn't organic but our bullshit advertising it!"

'I'm not motivated by profit, Henderson - I'm motivated by excessive profit.'

'I sometimes wonder if these endless meetings accomplish anything.'

"He's not sleeping. He always dims his display while downloading data."

'Can't he ever use a different kind of chart?'

Targets.

"Every now and then, I find myself in a room filled with people who are wrong."

"Since I am chairman, it behooves me to go first. 'What I Did Over My Summer Vacation,' by Wilson Rupert Hewes."

Finally! A cure for the common cold!

'Who wants the talking stick?'

Corporate Recruiters, Inc. makes a HUGE mistake hauling up its drift net in full view of a Greenpeace International office.

"Did you ask the client about product placement?"

"We must kill this initiative, so let's mainstream it."

'Frank is into D.I.Y...'Destroy It Yourself'!'

"I liked it better when you used gobbledygook."

"Who ordered the bravest tuna on all the seven seas, anointed with the spice of faraway lands, on wheat toast?"

'We need to target the rich and stupid.'

"Anything goes today: I want this to be a free and open discussion of my entrenched positions."

Employee attending a breakfast meeting in his pyjamas.

'My market doesn't understand me.'

"Remember, Katie, genius is 10% inspiration and 80% media manipulation."

Smoke and Mirrors: Harold couldn't work out why his new store wasn't getting any customers.

'Our company needs a tougher image. So from here on out we'll answer the phone with the greeting, 'what the hell do you want?!'

'We couldn't give away black-and-white TVs until we started advertising them as having 'non multi-color capability'.'

You trip on it, you buy it.

"My mommy suggested I try a different advertising approach."

'It's an emergency, Doctor. The vitamin company needs an endorsement.'

"I think I know what your problem is. Not enough PR."