1. It's been a long day, the Dow is down, your blood pressure is up and you finally have a chance to kick back and relax. You click on the TV and, presto, there's a little financial news. You watch...
once in a while, just to check in. (I can quit anytime I want, honest!)
only when something big happens in the market. (Which means every day!)
you mean there's something else on other than financial news?

2.You've maxed it out, rolled it over and cherished it each and every day. Basically, you've put more time into the relationship with your 401(k) than you have with most people you've dated. You log on to check the balance of your account:
almost never. After all, what I don't know can't force me to double my Prozac.
once in a while. It makes me feel better to see people managing my money are even worse at it than I am.
I have the window open on my computer right now and I believe that if I hit "refresh" at just the right time, I'll see a gain.

3. Some people have high paid consultants, others have a board of directors, and you have The Wall Street Journal. The front page...
never affects my business decisions.
occasionally affects my business decisions.
heavily affects my business decisions. (It did until I decided I couldn't afford my subscription anymore.)

4. The only thing worse than watching people with too much to do is watching those with not enough to do. So, laying off employees is always the best way to cut costs...
true.
false.
only when I want to feel like Donald Trump by saying, "You're Fired."

5. No matter how bad the news or the bailouts were over the weekend, it's another Monday and everybody at the staff meeting is looking to you. The best way to weather the current financial situation is to...
grow my business aggressively.
act only when an opportunity presents itself.
click the heels of my ruby slippers together three times, saying, "I wish I was home, I wish I was home..."

6. Once you've lost the corner office, the next best thing seems like a stool at the corner bar. Getting together to complain with my friends about "how bad it is out there"...
makes me feel better.
let's me know I'm not alone.
is usually my idea. (My accountant says I can write off my tab as a "business expense.")

7. Whether you have your MBA or just saw last night's episode of, "Celebrity Apprentice," everybody knows that businesses grow during good economies and fail during bad ones...
true.
false.
I don't know, whatever Greenspan says.

8. Of course you're not napping—you're thinking! Reviewing the challenges you face...
is a good way to see all sides of an issue.
makes me feel like I'm working on a solution.
gives me something to do during the commercials on Jim Kramer's show.

9. Wasn't gasoline $4 a gallon 10 minutes ago, and now it's less than $2? I'm sure that makes perfect sense to someone, just not me. I guess like everything else, my business is at the mercy of "the economy"...
true.
false.
is this quiz almost over?

I will appear to those around me as if I am keeping a cool head.
things will get better. It's all cyclical, right?
out of pity, someone will bring me cookies and warm milk.

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