Success Ponderers Gifts

"I know this sounds corny, Bob, but for me, the true measure of success is when I can look at the man in the mirror each day and still find a way to blame my parents for everything wrong in my life!"

"This number goes out to all the little people I met on my way back down."

"I spent hundreds of dollars on a course for entrepreneurs then found out the fire in my belly was acid reflux."

"It's not that I'm lazy. But I envisage myself not so much climbing the corporate ladder, as taking the corporate elevator."

"What's with kids nowadays? Walking upright's not good enough for you?"

"Sure, but what have you invented lately?"

GDP and G&T.

'My dad is pushing me to become an alpha male, but frankly, I'd rather be a poet...'

"Well, for starters, Matt has been showing definite improvement in risk-taking."

'Though we must innovate, and though we must grow, we must never lose sight of our core mediocrities.'

Never mind spring. What do you predict for the economy?

"I just don't know what to do with myself in that long stretch after college but before social security."

Dorothy finds the Yellow brick road is now a 6-lane expressway.

"I'm so confident that when I climb a ladder."

The Loneliness of Power

'When will it be o.k. to feel irrationally exuberant again?'

'I always thought the expression 'the road to success is paved with failure' was just a random saying and not the literal truth...'

"Have they no shame?"

"If you never date a prediction it can't be proved wrong."

'I'm waiting for the Government to build an elevator!'

Your Ticket to Fame and Fortune...sold out.

Look — if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted. One moment — Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Your weight and fortune. What you'll weigh now...what you'll weigh 10 years from now.

'Are you sure we want to evolve? Remember what happened last time.'

Progress

Sales at the Yo-Yo Co.

When this is buildings we can say we remember when all this was fields.

"Why don't you become a boxer? Haha, just kidding!"

"Yo've got to be more specific, Ed. Wake you when what's over?"

The Dinner Builiding

"Any New Year's resolutions?" "I'm going to do better." "That's a nice sentiment but a little vague. Without a specific benchmark how'll you know you've met it?" "How'll I know I haven't?" "That's oddly logical." "And achievable."

"This is my exit strategy."

'...do I want to risk putting up with someone like me?'