Douglas Coupland Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

  Douglas Coupland

  Expression, Youth, Wealth

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.19, Hachette UK

• I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.

  Douglas Coupland

  War, Ambition, Greed

• I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Strong, Heat Of The Sun

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

• The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

  Douglas Coupland

  Wealth, Prosperity, Modern

  "Microserfs". Book by Douglas Coupland, June 1995.

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