Douglas Coupland Quotes

My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 30, 1961

Topics

LifeExperienceJobSmartPeople

If I'm honest about the people that I love, then I need my characters to live through the same things that the people I love and care about are living with and struggling with.

Jesmyn Ward

LoveLivePeopleCareLivingNeed

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

Anna Deavere Smith

TelevisionNeverShowBeenViolent

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

Matt Groening

EducationPeopleSayingSolutionGet

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

Stuart Rose

FailureBusinessHateHappyPeople

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Ronald Kessler

TrustEnoughHandCompanyCapital

During my Ph.D. program, I became interested in the informational structure of markets that turned into the work on signaling, which was the part of my early work that was recognized for the Nobel Prize, but it was not really a subject at the time.

Michael Spence

WorkTimeEarlyStructurePrize

It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.

Jose Angel Gurria

QualityCompetitionBetterEnough

Because we don't have a lot of light, because we have a very low budget, we have to adjust the speed of our camera to get the effect that we want. So sometimes this is the way we work, and the result of the filming becomes a kind of a style.

Wong Kar-wai

WorkStyleLightCameraResultKind

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Plato

LifeEducationFutureManDirection

You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.

Tilman J. Fertitta

BusinessWaterPeopleRestaurantYou

Modern, effective leadership means moving beyond the 'grand illusion' to engage the mass population and to align business with societal goals.

Richard Edelman

LeadershipGoalsBusinessMoving

On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'

Rhys Ifans

GoodInsuranceYouSayThey Say

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