The state of business in 2016, in one lame management cliché

They never said it was easy.

“The first quarter reflects the robustness of our business model in a highly challenging environment.”

“Our customers are operating in an incredibly dynamic and sometimes challenging global environment.”

“Certainly it’s a challenging macroeconomic environment out there.”

“It continues to be a challenging market.”

“We want to basically assume a challenging environment and structure accordingly.”

“To be frank, Q1 was a very challenging quarter, not only for Commerzbank but for the entire industry.”

“Today we’re reporting the results of a very busy and challenging quarter.”

“Our results in the first quarter demonstrated strong execution in challenging market conditions.”

“Despite challenging market conditions, we are able to deliver a fairly resilient set of results.”

“As we’ve shown in this quarter, we can manage through challenging times.”