Payment Plan Strategist Mugs

'How do you want to pay for this, 60 easy payments or 12 hard ones?'

"Looks like we found the issue."

"Marshall, somewhere out there, just waiting for us, is a loophole in the system."

"Stock options for your thoughts."

"I'm afraid 'It's a surprise', doesn't cut it as a growth strategy."

"Work hard. Save money. Work hard. Save money. Work hard. Save money. Work hard. Save money. Yay!!! I died rich!"

"We need to reset our fiscal compass to the changing business horizon."

"Dammit, Johnson. You've got to start thinking outside of the box."

"We were able to retire 6 years early by canceling cable & eliminating anything fun."

'Fred, I want you to sanitize this, punch it up, dumb it down, leak it to the media and then be fully prepared to deny it!'

'Dammit - how do we get in on that gross national product?'

'I think we'd be more confident about meeting our targets if we could work out what they were!'

"All we have to fear is fear itself and unmet quarterly projections."

Signs: Sales, Profit and Media coverage.

'The good news is we've discovered a vast new oil resource. The bad news is we need a space ship to get there.'

Failure/Due Diligence

Corporate departments as a metaphor for growing up.

Plan 'A', Plan 'B' - "I say we should go with plan 'A', sir."

Jack and Ina build their dream house.

'Does it bother anyone else that our entire business is based on one questionable product?'

"We've developed a five year plan that includes ample provisions for another five year plan if this one doesn't work."

Investing your savings

Business cartoon showing sales declining so much that they bounce off the floor.

"It's not bulls**t if we call it strategy."

"De l'huile bouillante, pas du fromage fondu!"

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

"After an extensive analysis of your company's strengths and weaknesses our recommendation is to give us more money."

'Greenspan said today the alert staus for the possible interest rate has been reduced from orange to yellow.'

"If I'm such a poor risk, how did I get so deep into debt?"

Lemonade - $500 A Glass! 'Yes, my prices high, but how else am I supposed to buy a Boulevart M109R? Certainly not on my allowance.'

'I understand this was the day you seized, Ferguson?'

"You never actually own a pension pot - you merely look after it for the next government."

'Can you loan me *** till pay day?'

'We had no contingency plan for things going right.'

Man breaks piggy bank to find another smaller piggy bank inside.