Andrew Mason Quotes

Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

A lot of people can raise money.

Life is too short to be a boring company.

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

We can't be afraid to be weird.

One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.

If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.

Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.

It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.

I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.

If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.

I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.

I just like to build things and do things.