Andrew Mason Quotes

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We can't be afraid to be weird.

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.

Life is too short to be a boring company.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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