Quotes By Andrew Mason

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

I don't get stressed out.

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.

A lot of people can raise money.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I just like to build things and do things.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.