Wag Aspirations Prints

"I want to be a footballer's wife."

And here's the office floor plan. The numbers indicate the recommended sequence in which to step on people on your way to the top.

"Well, I'll miss him, but all his friends are backpacking Europe to herd sheep this summer, too."

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

'That's the first cubicle I ever worked in.'

If a moo can rise to the top, so can I.

"I've finally arrived. The C.E.O. stopped saying 'who the hell are you' whenever he sees me."

"By God, Man! Yes!! This is the stuff we're looking for!"

"He's a psychopath with megalomanic tendencies...I like that in a candidate!"

"You'll find I'm highly motivated and ambitious...oh, is this your desk?"

Wall Street has a one way arrow upwards.

I'm willing to start at the bottom and work my way up to your job..

"It's a long term goal."

'We can't find a pond small enough where you'd be a big fish.'

Good boy

'In five year's time?... I see myself on that side of the desk telling you it's a great shame, thanks for all your hard work, but I'm going to have to let you go!'

What is possible/what is probable.

"I didn't say I started jogging, I said blogging."

"There's no denying that you are ambitious but we are looking for someone with more dress sense."

'Shouldn't you be somewhere clawing yourself to the top, or something?'

"I started out on a molehill - What about you?"

Desk at the Horizon

"I could have gotten to the top . . . but I wasted all my time in the park."

"Shape up, son! You want to be a dung beetle the rest of your life?"

'You'll have to decide - do you want to be top management in a small pond, or bottom management in a big pond?'

'I realize money can't buy happiness, so I'm just trying to improve the exchange rate.'

'If you can control your emotions I will make you a branch manager. Yippee.'

'I thought I'd put in the details later.'

"I started out fetching."

Businessmen's Dreams

'When I reach the top, Henderson, I won't forget all the little people I climbed over to get there.'

Low hanging fruit

'Herman threatens to shut down the network if you don't give him your job.'

Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.

"Ambitions... to make it to the other side."