Mergers And Acquisitions Maestro Gifts

'...You have a hostile takeover bid stuck in your craw.'

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

"You've just got to have the biggest and the best, have'nt you?!"

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

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

Fish and color

"That's Hicks from the corporate office. He's adorable, but trust me—when it comes to acquisitions, he's an animal!"

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

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

"Oh, no! We've inadvertently gobbled up our own parent company."

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

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

"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?"

...I wonder who started the rumour of your resignation?

Traffic Management Strategic Group

Cheer up, you'll get your day.

'Dow goes up, Dow goes 'round, but we'll keep rockin' 'til the Fed cracks down . . . '

"Anyway, we'd love to have You on board for the Creighton deal."

Project Manager Showdown

Hats: Management/Good Job/Friendly but Aloof.

A statue of a businessman in a park with an inscription that reads "Outperformed the market".

'My computer? - I got rid of it for insubordination!'

'No doubt about it, John, zero does represent a critical support level for this stock.'

'He was always too busy to sit for his portrait.'

"well I'll be - you are the boss of me."

Okay, let's see...who's on tap to update our progress with that hostile takeover?

The merger hits a snag.

The Speculators

"...And please let the merger do through!"

"I'm glad my team places me on a pedestal."

'I've been a broker for almost three days and I've never seen the market act like this.'

"Your first job is to learn to recognize your boss' voice on the phone."

"Get me someone in Apologies, someone in Walkbacks, and send up the whole Scapegoating team."

"Gentleman, come in! Come in! Let me take your company."

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