Pain Predictor Prints

"Gentlemen, I'm pleased to say the firm is perfectly positioned to avoid chapter eleven and still be in existence this time next year."

'Great news this quarter! Losses are up in smoke, profits are high, and we're seeing lots of green!'

'I foresee a few more months of creating havoc without consequences, and then, yes, I see the 'cute' factor will start to wear thin...'

"We've done a rigorous examination of your business plan using the latest algorithms to model future profits. . . which way up would you like it?"

'This is from a post-ethics phase.'

Business is off the chart.

"I love your optimism."

"It's swings and roundabouts – one goes up the other goes down."

'Look on the bright side; you got out of that stock before it became...unstable.'

'I tried everything to turn this around but if the cops ask, I was here in this room with you guys all week.'

"Oh, I can't complain"

Sales Chart Through Ceiling

Astrological forecasts of the rich and famous

"It will be all your fault."

'You certainly have a way with no words.'

"This is where things started getting really weird."

"Thankfully, this year, the results can be attributed to something other than our own gross incompetence."

'Well Miss Hayward, your suggestion of trying Feng Shui didn't work.'

"We're estimating that sales are now up to about here."

"Who's on duty today...you or me?"

Horse five to win, unless they change the jockey.

"I suppose that's what happens when 'putting customers first' comes second!"

"We don't believe in miracles. We rely on them."

'A simple, 'profits are up', would have sufficed.'

Profit Chart with Happy and Sad Faces.

"We had a higher than expected income. We didn't expect any income at all."

"It also doubles as a karaoke machine."

Oh, I can't complain. high profits

'The Buck (after taxes) Stops Here.'

"Have you heard something that the rest of us don't know about?"

Business Meeting

The End of the World is Nigh - man with placard

"They said it couldn't be done. I suppose we should have listened to our lawyers."

'Today the stock market closed early so money managers could take time to stop and smell the profits.'

"The accounting change that contributed most to the quarter was adding three zeros to the revenue number."