Wannabe Tycoon Gifts

'I'm sure that one wasn't there last week.'

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"Son, you're old enough now for The Talk: everything you need to know about compound interest."

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"I'm starting my own delivery service. Is there anything you want to borrow from my Dad?!"

"There are the arts, the sciences, agriculture, and commerce. Stick with commerce, if you know what's good for you."

'This boy you call my son doesn't care about investments, economy and money. I want a DNA test.'

'So I'll become a CEO of a dummy corporation.'

'That's true son..Money can't buy happiness. But it makes being unhappy a little easier to live with.'

"You really shouldn't ask for material things like a bike. At least try for a Porsche."

A smiling man leaning on large piggy bank.

"Someday this will all be yours...assuming that someday you'll have enough to buy it from me."

'I told you he's gonna be the next Warren Buffett!'

"It all started when I didn't grow up in a palatial estate."

"Forget the allowance. I'm getting more than I need from venture capital."

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

'Let's play business. I'll be the chairman of the board and you'll work for me and laugh whenever I tell a joke.'

'We really like your suggested target of us becoming 'richer than God if God won the lottery'. Any idea how we might get there.'

'I'd like to invest in some young companies.'

'Someday, son...all this will be Mine.'

"He just talked me into giving him a 200% raise in his allowance. At least we don't have to worry about him not succeeding in business when he grows up."

Dialed the number, ordered the tapes and placed hundreds of little ads. Didn't hit a snag until step four: Just sit back and rake it in.

'It's quite the Horatio Alger story, isn't it? Humble origins in a single drop of pond water, gradually devouring every competitor in sight. Naturally, it was just a matter of time before you decided to join our company!'

"I can't decide which I'd rather do- make a twenty-billion-dollar bid of turn down a twenty-billion-dollar bid."

"That's the shoestring I started with. It was tied around 100 million dollars worth of stocks and bonds."

Business men's lunches: Tycoons ?25, On the way downers ?2.50.

"I brought you up here today, son, because I wanted you to get a feel for the scope of this damned thing."

"One day, this will all be yours. But right now, I need you down in the warehouse."

"Don't include any tobacco stocks in your portfolio- they'll only stunt its growth."

'I like the way his conscience doesn't get in the way of his profit motive.'