Andrew Mason famous quotes

05-19-2025

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.
-- Andrew Mason

#Success #Art #Vision
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-- Andrew Mason

#Mistake #Errors
Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.
-- Andrew Mason

#People #Giving #Great People
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
-- Andrew Mason

#Flower #Would Be #Dandelions
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 â€“ I was fired today,
-- Andrew Mason

#Years #Half #Four
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.
-- Andrew Mason

#Cutting #Hair #Mba
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

#Being Yourself #Inspiration #Long
If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.
-- Andrew Mason

#Moments #Enough
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.
-- Andrew Mason

#Would Be #Culture #Difficult
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.
-- Andrew Mason

#Thinking #Differences #Personality
A lot of people can raise money.
-- Andrew Mason

#People #Raises
When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.
-- Andrew Mason

#Mom #Cutting #Thinking
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.
-- Andrew Mason

#Selfish #World #Sides
I just like to build things and do things.
-- Andrew Mason
I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
-- Andrew Mason

#Talking #Strange #Used
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.
-- Andrew Mason

#People #Secret #Crafts
I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.
-- Andrew Mason

#Thinking #People #Bigs
If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.
-- Andrew Mason

#Jobs #Fire #Guy
I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.
-- Andrew Mason

#Running #Realizing #Small Business
One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
-- Andrew Mason

#Keep Going
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 would be most welcome on any lawn.
-- Andrew Mason

#Flower #Rays #Would Be
We can't be afraid to be weird.
-- Andrew Mason

#Business #Entrepreneurship
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.
-- Andrew Mason

#Writing #Marketing #Culture
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.
-- Andrew Mason

#Religious #Attachment #Innovation
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
-- Andrew Mason

#Listening #Sainthood #Woe
I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.
-- Andrew Mason

#Entrepreneur
It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.
-- Andrew Mason

#People #Figures #Experimentation
If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.
-- Andrew Mason

#Wrinkles #Laughing
Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.
-- Andrew Mason

#Phones #Years #Use
Life is too short to be a boring company.
-- Andrew Mason

#Life Is Too Short #Life Is Short #Boring

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