Andrew Mason quotes

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. (Andrew Mason)
One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
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Life is too short to be a boring company.
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In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.
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I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.
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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.
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I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.
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If there's one piece of wisdom that this simple pilgrim would like to impart upon you: have the courage to start with the customer. My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what's best for our customers. This leadership change gives you some breathing room to break bad habits and deliver sustainable customer happiness - don't waste the opportunity!
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For those who are concerned about me, please don't be - I love Groupon, and I'm terribly proud of what we've created. I'm OK with having failed at this part of the journey. If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I made it all the way to the Terra Tubes without dying on my first ever play through.
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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. If you're wondering why ... you haven't been paying attention.
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Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. (Andrew Mason)
Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.
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Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.
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I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
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When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.
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A lot of people can raise money. (Andrew Mason)
I just like to build things and do things.
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I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
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Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal.
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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.
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