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

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.

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.

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

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 just like to build things and do things.

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.