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"Frankly, now that he's an obnoxious teenager, I find it more and more difficult to muster the urge to protect him..."

"Jill Hamster's entrepreneurial disaster"

"That's Paul, he's our head of partnerships..."

'He had a meteoric rise to the top.'

Do you want to win the game or my business?

"You're 5 years old now, Timmy. It's about time you retain an attorney."

'The school. My counselor told me to make the most of it...'

"You can build it with me, but you can't wreck it with me."

"Still believe leaders are born not developed?"

'First, I'd like to list the mitigating circumstances.'

A young boy sits behind a lemonade stand with a sign that reads "Lemonade 25¢ - Jay Antosh, Chief Executive Officer".

"We've made $7.50. Can we retire yet?"

Warren Buffett as a child

'First, the Rules of Engagement for this meeting ...'

"Anyway, we'd love to have You on board for the Creighton deal."

...and if the Chairman rings, find out who he is.

"I am not ‘politicizing the issue’ — I simply asked you to pick up your room!"

'No hostile takeover bids beyond this point.'

'Why don't we try a renegotiated buyout offer before we go with the Plague of Rabid Bats thing.'

"After all the trouble I've been in lately, I decided to hire a PR firm to repair my image."

'One day son, all this will be theirs'.'

"Remember, negotiating is like buying fruit. You don't know what you'll get until you squeeze 'em a bit."

"I came, I saw I takeovered."

"When do you think the upturn in the economy will have an input in my allowance?"

'This should increase our business.'

"Don't anybody move: this is a merger."

'The business is worth $125,000, tops. We expect Google to offer us three billion.'

"I wasn't talking in my sleep. I was negotiating."

"If you don't bring me what I want, next year I'll go straight to the manufacturer in China!"

'I'll do your taxes for you, daddy, if you'll color these silly homework pictures for me.'

'A raise in my allowance is fine, dad. But what I'm really after is power of attorney.'

'Before I mow the grass, I'd like to quote from section four, paragraph c, of the state child labor code...'

'Sorry for interrupting. I didn't realize you were still trying to hammer out an agreement.'

'So, anyone have any idea how we go about explaining how we made a hostile takeover bid for one of our own subsidiaries?'