Success Storyteller Pillows

"It was an amazing half hour."

Mountain Tops Incorporated

"He'll never win this negotiation. He's saddled with numbers...but we have anecdotes."

'Remember me, Fred? I sat next to you in class and you said I'd never amount to anything.'

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

"Now the board will hear from Todd from Accounting with his free verse composition 'My Mistress, Brash and Beguiling – the Third Quarter Numbers.'"

"Oh, just great, Dick. How are things going with you?"

"We have a goal wrapped in a plan, and served on a bed of success."

"The secret is to ask yourself: what would someone who's successful do?"

High Five

Wall of Office Memories

Others' perceptions (which aren't always true)

'If you want to be a great success, get yourself huge wads of money.'

'With the economy the way it is, there's no silver lining. In fact we sold that last week!'

"And to think he started in accounting."

"Gosh, this reminds me of one of my favorite John Lennon lyrics: "Life is what happens to you while you're making other quarterly sales plans."

"Marlowe filled the crooked gumshoe full of lead. He watched the smoke from his .38 coil in the air as he… mommy’s behind me, isn’t she?"

'Guess how much I sold today?'

'I eliminated all the platitudes and cliche statements, from your mission statement, and I'm left with this blank sheet of paper.'

"We thought we could put in the details later."

Climbing the mountain up towards business opportunities.

Turning a business graph around to get a positive reading.

"But am I happy? Very."

"Our market research predicts this product mascot will be irresistible to both men and women..."

Yes, I am slow, but my life expectancy is way longer than yours, so I can still achieve a lot in life...

We have the businessman's lunch which is �4.95 and the successful businessman's lunch at �7.50.

If John Lennon had gone into strategic management.

Man chasing carrot.

'Why do I always have to be the one to connect the dots for you people?'

"This is juicy - tell me more!"

'...Not bad for someone who started out in hell's kitchen!'

What a success story! It says this guy was in prison and now owns a corporation! Ah, he went from pen to inc.

I wrote a poem about our failure to capture and secure the highway. It's called "The Road Not taken."

'Remember me, Fred? I sat next to you in class. I'm the one you said would never amount to anything.'

Failure - Success