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"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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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?"

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

'We need to target the rich and stupid.'

Employee attending a breakfast meeting in his pyjamas.

'My market doesn't understand me.'

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

'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?!'

You trip on it, you buy it.

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

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

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

"The result of our last meeting are impressive: 3 completely solved crossword puzzles, 7 battleship matches, 5 shopping lists, and 26 really funny doodles."

'I say we try it.'