Enjoy The Victory


sales graph cartoon

I keep my ear to the ground for words and phrases that I can play with. It’s like this little unconscious screen you filter everything you come in contact with through. Most of the time when something sticks I jot it down on a scrap of paper and then mine those later for ideas. Recently, I ran across one with “told you so” on it and set to work on coaxing out a cartoon.

There’s plenty of low hanging fruit to go with “told you so,” but the phrase has a certain smugness about it that wasn’t working for me. So I started playing with different ways to say it:

  • See?
  • What’d I tell you?
  • Saw that coming.

But the one that stuck was “called it!” and this arm-pumping guy came to mind almost immediately. I hope he enjoys his victory, because somehow I don’t think he’ll be working there much longer.

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Mark Anderson Mark Anderson's cartoons appear in publications including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. His business cartoons are available for licensing at his website, Andertoons.com.

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  1. Too funny! I have a feeling there are a lot of “called it” moments that happen in boardrooms, though, hopefully, not nearly as celebratory.

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