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 ….

If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself..

Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years..

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

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

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

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

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome..

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

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

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooki….

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

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 g….

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 ou….

I just like to build things and do things..

We can't be afraid to be weird..

Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy..

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business..

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 w….

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

Life is too short to be a boring company..