Quotes By Andrew Mason

I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.

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

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.

I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.

I own over four ties.

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

The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide.

I can't predict the future.

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.

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.

Local businesses have never had a great way to get customers in the door.

I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.

I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.

Life is too short to be a boring company.

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.

I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create my own free video to help people get started.

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.

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

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant.

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

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 find myself using the word 'executives' now.

You've got to go out there and kill what you're going to eat.

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

If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

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

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.