Top 281 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Purchased experiences don't count.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.