Doug Coupland
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

  • If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

  • If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?