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. – Doug Coupland
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment youre past it. – Doug Coupland
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but its not quite the same thing. – Doug Coupland
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. – Doug Coupland
Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, theres the opportunity seeds of great success. Theyre not miles apart. So if theyre that close together, and if youre really working, youre always gonna have that likelihood that somethings not going to work. – Peter Guber