Andrew Mason
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.Collection: Mistake
Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.Collection: People
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.Collection: Flower
Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.Collection: Phones
In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.Collection: Art
One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.Collection: One Thing
I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.Collection: Serious Person
You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Being Yourself
If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.Collection: Moments
We can't be afraid to be weird.Collection: Business
I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.Collection: Entrepreneur
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.Collection: Thinking
Life is too short to be a boring company.Collection: Life Is Too Short
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.Collection: Cutting
If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.Collection: Wrinkles
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.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Selfish
In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.Collection: Term
I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.Collection: Thinking
It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.Collection: People
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.Collection: Religious
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.Collection: Listening
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.Collection: Would Be
A lot of people can raise money.Collection: People
When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: Writing
Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.Collection: Very Happy
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.Collection: Flower
I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.Collection: Running
If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: People
I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.Collection: Talking