Profit Predictor Pillows

"I love your optimism."

Profits - "It's worse than you think it goes down to the third floor."

"The chart, of course, is nonrepresentational."

'You certainly have a way with no words.'

"This is where things started getting really weird."

'Ed, can you remember what that rumor was you had started at that time?'

I think we should go with your plan B.

'This good fortune is a result of exceptionally good judgement and management, or plain old good luck.'

"It was an amazing half hour."

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

'They're off the chart but we're tracking them on radar.' (BA Profits).

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

'Here we threw out all the market analysis and just went with the flow.'

"That's a very convincing strategy."

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

'I must say, I do like your resume.'

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

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

Happy graph.

I'm pinning up next year's chart. You've got high hopes.

"Sir, the tip of the iceberg."

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

Profit Chart with Happy and Sad Faces.

Sales Chart Through Ceiling

"And that is where we started to focus on customer care."

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

"I forget, does our company make money yet?"

"Oh, I can't complain"

Abracadabra! We have growth!

'This is from a post-ethics phase.'

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

'This is really creative accounting. I had no idea we were doing so well.'

'We're facing oblivion...Well, I'm not.'

'The usual slow quarter is over and we're now into the expected slower quarter slump.'

'Absent any details, in purely visual terms, I like it.'