Andrew Mason quotes
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“You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.”
-- Andrew MasonSource : "7 Insanely Rich Founders Share Their Best Business Advice" by Larry Kim, www.businessinsider.com. August 26, 2014.
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“Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.”
-- Andrew MasonSource : Andrew V. Mason (2002). “And Or Love”, p.52, Trafford Publishing
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“Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.”
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“If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.”
-- Andrew MasonSource : Andrew V. Mason (2002). “And Or Love”, p.46, Trafford Publishing
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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,”
-- Andrew MasonSource : "Groupon CEO: 'I Was Fired Today.'" by John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com. February 28, 2013.
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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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“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.”
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“If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.”
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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 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 MasonSource : "The real deal with Groupon". "60 minutes: Groupon" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. January 15, 2012.
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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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“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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“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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“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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“I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.”
-- Andrew MasonSource : "The real deal with Groupon". "60 minutes: Groupon" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbshw.net. January 15, 2012.
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“If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.”
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“I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.”
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“One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.”
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“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.”
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“We can't be afraid to be weird.”
-- Andrew MasonSource : "Groupon CEO: Being in a band made my business rock". Interview with Kim-Mai Cutler, venturebeat.com. May 7, 2010.
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“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.”
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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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“I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.”
-- Andrew MasonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.”
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“If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.”
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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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“Life is too short to be a boring company.”
-- Andrew MasonSource : "Groupon's $20bn valuation is 'not rational', analysts warn" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com.
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