Andrew Mason Quotes

• Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

  Andrew Mason

  Mistake, Errors, Making Mistakes

  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.

  Andrew Mason

  People, Giving, Great People

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• If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

  Andrew Mason

  Flower, Would Be, Bouquets

  Andrew V. Mason (2002). “And Or Love”, p.46, Trafford Publishing

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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.

  Andrew Mason

  Phones, Years, Use

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• In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

  Andrew Mason

  Art, Competition, Plagiarism

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• One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

  Andrew Mason

  One Thing, Keep Going

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• I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.

  Andrew Mason

  Serious Person, Serious, Persons

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

  Andrew Mason

  Success, Art, Vision

  "7 Insanely Rich Founders Share Their Best Business Advice" by Larry Kim, www.businessinsider.com. August 26, 2014.

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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.

  Andrew Mason

  Being Yourself, Inspiration, Long

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• If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

  Andrew Mason

  Moments, Enough, Ifs

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• We can't be afraid to be weird.

  Andrew Mason

  Business, Entrepreneurship

  "Groupon CEO: Being in a band made my business rock". Interview with Kim-Mai Cutler, venturebeat.com. May 7, 2010.

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• I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

  Andrew Mason

  Entrepreneur, Intriguing

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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 Mason

  Thinking, Differences, Personality

  "The real deal with Groupon". "60 minutes: Groupon" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. January 15, 2012.

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• Life is too short to be a boring company.

  Andrew Mason

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Life Being Short

  "Groupon's $20bn valuation is 'not rational', analysts warn" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com.

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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.

  Andrew Mason

  Cutting, Hair, Mba

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• If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.

  Andrew Mason

  Wrinkles, Laughing, Right Place

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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 Mason

  Years, Today, Half

  "Groupon CEO: 'I Was Fired Today.'" by John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com. February 28, 2013.

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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.

  Andrew Mason

  Selfish, World, Sides

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• In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.

  Andrew Mason

  Term, Stills

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• It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.

  Andrew Mason

  People, Figures, Experimentation

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• I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.

  Andrew Mason

  Thinking, People, Bigs

  "The real deal with Groupon". "60 minutes: Groupon" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbshw.net. January 15, 2012.

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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.

  Andrew Mason

  Religious, Attachment, Challenges

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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.

  Andrew Mason

  Listening, Saint, Woe

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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.

  Andrew Mason

  Would Be, Culture, Difficult

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• When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

  Andrew Mason

  Mom, Cutting, Thinking

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