Quotes By Andrew Mason

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop.

I don't get stressed out.

A lot of people can raise money.

One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.

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

Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal.

The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.