Andrew Mason Quotes

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• If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
• 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…
• We can't be afraid to be weird.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
• Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
• Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.
• I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.
• It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.
• 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.…
• If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.
• Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.
• 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…
• You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.
• Life is too short to be a boring company.
• 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…
• 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…
• When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

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