Profit Fiend Prints

"Chasing Investment Yield for Fitness & Profit"

'Please remember that these figures could be off as much as two dollars.'

So I'm "cheap." It's a perfectly good word. And it aptly describes my interest in conserving resources. I suppose we could call you "thrifty." Heavens no! And waste two whole letters? I see we've only wasted one whole tea bag.

"The new revenue stream is finally kicking in."

'We're all right as long as they think we're taking millions.'

Smiling businessman with rising profits

"Oh, I can't complain"

"Now that's how to declare a dividend!"

'This is why we can't have nice things... '

'I think you'll find these projections somewhat exaggerated, but in a good way.'

Propping up a profits chart.

"Today we welcome back an old friend."

"A good quarter is a joy forever."

Perhaps we could get the Saatchis to pain a pretty picture.

"Love your feng shui!"

'Miss Henshaw - bring me my trumpet.'

'Here's the improved margins you said you wanted to see this year, Tom.'

"Graphs are like EKGs, they show the health of a company."

'Wait a minute....!

"...and right here in Q2 is where the 'you know what' hit the fan. . ."

"R&D really created a miracle drug this time...at least it's been miraculous for our bottom line!"

"Our accountancy firm says that there are a number of ways to interpret the figures... which one do you prefer?"

Kicking The Habit

Liberties: civil and uncivil.

"This data shows us that we are going up to a new level."

And this is my dance of the third quarters profit ratio.

The game comes first...

"I think he's been capitalised!"

"The short term solution is money and the long term solution more money."

"I can't decide which I'd rather do- make a twenty-billion-dollar bid of turn down a twenty-billion-dollar bid."

'Of course, for me, Christmas has a deeply felt religious significance! The stock exchange is my church...!

Making Money.

Delighted worker being propelled through the air on the back of the scale coming right off the chart

'No doubt the upturn will come soon because the sheet of paper ends here!'

"Is it an important text?"