Stock Market Gladiator Gifts

'My investment objective is to keep up with my neighbors, the Joneses, who just won the lottery.'

'Next on 'evening shouting match'...is it a bull or bear market?'

'I'm beginning to worry -- everything I've got is tied up in investment newsletters!'

"Forget five-year plans. Let's just figure out how to make it to lunch."

'Manager. . . Commander. . . Chieftain. . . King!'

Rage.

"Well, it looks like the merger is off."

I only root so hard for my time because I hate your team so much.

Bad for you but to die for

"Oh dear...I don't think negotiations are going too well..."

His family thought he'd been wasting his life, but Steve Wiebe was about to prove everyone wrong.

"I feel your pain."

"Well, it's unanimous. Instead of going out of business quietly, with dignity and grace, we've decided to end things killer asteroid-style, taking as many of our competitors with us as possible!"

"Good news...I found a doctor who says you can still play!"

'Dog eat dog.'

"When you've been here as long as I have, you'll start to burn out"

'I'm telling ya, it's a jungle out there.'

They loved the presentation on competing in the marketplace.

"Everything's gone up."

'I feel confident about our presentation. If there is any blowback, don't worry. We're both wearing our flak jackets under our suits.'

"I know I should have gotten a cart, but I can't give up now."

American Football.

'So far we're holding off overseas competition.'

Football.

'I'm calling you out, account to account.'

'I've decided to skip my senior year and go directly into an endless cycle of unrealistic expectations and failure.'

Punishment for the kicker.

"Do we want to tackle this head on, or just stun it with a glancing blow until Monday?"

"Bye now... it's always nice to see you and little Tommy!"

"The quicksand was corporate's idea. I wanted to fire you for going over my head. They wanted to send a message."

"A Japanese company will deliver them to us for �6.75 a thousand."

"It was your father's idea - He can't bear to miss a second of the game."

"I feel your pain. It's the least I can do for not paying you like a man."

Business cartoon showing a stressed business woman who has three urgent messages on her office door.

'You want this, don't you? The hate is swelling in you now. Take the red whiteboard marker. Give in to your anger.'