Mindful Tactician Gifts

The only side I take in an argument here is this side of the door.

"It's Swamp & Swallow - they're making an offer we can't refuse!"

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

Takeovers.

'Competition is good...unless it's too good.'

"Works every time."

'Jones, somewhere out there, we've lost our common sense. I want you to go and bring it back.'

"So this is it...the first day of the new school year. I guess studying, tests and report cards are still the hot things around here."

'Larry, you have everything it takes to go far in this company, but a word of advice: lose the laugh.'

"I was able to negotiate it from a hostile takeover to an uneasy alliance."

'This is Osgood, our most essential man -- he thinks up new ways to limit warranties!'

"Hi, I'm Cindy, the company's most toxic employee!"

'Remember, Henderson - Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and you've sacrificed your leverage.'

"You can't expect to get anywhere in business without making an enemy or two, Filmeyer."

"It's a dog-eat-dog economy. And I'm the Doberman."

ISIS needle in a haystack.

'This paintball war has really spun out of control.'

"Remember, negotiating is like buying fruit. You don't know what you'll get until you squeeze 'em a bit."

'Sir! We're all doomed! It's a fitted sheet! How can we ever hope to stop something we can't even fold?!'

"Clearly, this pair were up to something. . ."

"The answer isn't more troops—what you need is an antibiotic."

Trojan horse.

So what happens when you told Armstrong you wouldn't recite that Sinclair Broadcasting script? Oh, nothing. Sinclair sued me for everything I own, that's all. But the joke's on them: I've set up different LLC's for every aspect of my life. So all they could get were the assets of the LLC that they paid. This opens up a whole world of possibilities. I knew forming Rudy-has-next-to-nada LLC was a good idea. I am going to miss my ten cents and my broken wiffle ball, though.

Musician

Thanks to compromise they were moving closer.

"We're fighting them in zone A, they're our allies in zone B, and we don't know what to do in zone C."

"I was hoping for more from you 'Mission Statement' than, 'earn a s******d of money'!"

'Man, I can't believe we didn't think of this before.'

'He was brought up with a moral, compassionate and philanthropic upbringing, but by putting his nose to the grind stone, he managed to surmount those handicaps.'

'It's not a stick-up, it's a merger offer.'

"We're well positioned for another hostile takeover."

British patent (applied for) A Trained Dog of war Drawing the Enemy's Fire.

"We can stop the bombardment - the castle surrendered."

"I think he's trying to sugarcoat the bad news."

"Of course you don't need to tell me about your procurement plans for the year ahead. That would spoil the surprise and give us time to deliver value for money and who needs that?!"