Quirky Entrepreneur Gifts

'I spotted a gap in the market.'

Tissue factory: 'Forget about softness. Tests show we could triple sales if we add pepper.'

'Ready?'

"We just don't get involved with things like double-blind tests and peer review. We'e just a little mom-and-pop laboratory."

Ice Cold Lemonade - Going out of business sale!

"Right, all those in favour of a car boot sale?"

'If business is slow, and you want my advice, changing your business name would help...'

Business was so slow that Quasimodo eventually sold up, and became the town bell ringer.

"We need a new website. . . there's no money, but think of the exposure. . ."

"Weed cookies"

"I don't know what it means, but since my mom added that word, sales have gone through the roof."

"Regular, grande, or lemon latte?"

An ice cream van surrounded by igloos

'I'm not in it for the money - I just figure it's a good way to get a lemonade whenever I want one.'

Setting up companies

'OK, Murgatroyd, what's this I hear about you operating an ear piercing service on the side?'

What are you doing? - 'I've set up an e-commerce site.' - 'What are you selling?' - 'Signed copies of my old boxer shorts.' - 'Washed £7. Unwashed £23.' - 'Yeah, baby. Market forces.' -

Girl with an all natural lemonade stand squeezes lemons into the mouths of customers.

'Someday, son, this can be all yours.'

Man making money selling ready-made snowmen

Billy's fire extinguishers, shoes and hooks - going out of business sale.

You can't rent my forehead as a billboard. But this is digital-era thinking. House of Java.net Cybercafe. We create more profits with advertising. Besides, I'll give you a cut of the action. Buy Pepsi. Ads by Google. You can have, let's say, 40% of the sponsorship money. I'm getting a minority share of my own head?! Fine, 50%, but we go 40/60 on face paint.

I never asked you, what'd you do with that old shack you bought years ago? Which one? I've bought three. I have a whole portfolio of properties, Randy. Really? Yeah. There's the old shack by the toxic waste dump, there's the cardboard box in an alley in downtown Candorville, and there's that inner tube in the Pacific Ocean. Sad thing is, the way things are going, you're going to make a killing on those someday. You should see what I'm getting for those on AirBnB.

"No, ma'am. I'm not sure what the difference is between being creative or just plain weird."

"Brian's fine. He`s got his own coping mechanism."

Ice Cream And Summer Rentals

Sport Utility Boot.

'And the best thing about this electric thermal underwear is, no batteries, it's solar!'

We're making progress building a staff for the palace. The king's lawyer and accountant has sealed lips, of course. Putting a big heart in the charity foundation chief, and building the gardener with a green thumb were excellent choices, Ernie. But the entertainers sill need some fixes. The jester doesn't have a funny bone. I'm nobody's fool. And you have the minstrel a tin ear! Oops.

'This wasn't what I meant by viral marketing...but if you can get it to work.'

"As you can see, our corporate structure is turtles all the way down."

'Nothing like being your own boss, huh?'

'This way, we'll always have rose petals on the bed. Pretty romantic, huh?'

Jenkins took special pride in his new invention, the rubberband-powered runabout.

"Why didn't we think of that?"