Andrew Mason Quotes

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

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Life is too short to be a boring company.

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

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.

We can't be afraid to be weird.

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

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

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

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

I just like to build things and do things.

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.

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

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.

A lot of people can raise money.

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

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.

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

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.

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