Explore Quotes by Andrew Mason

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

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.

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

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

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

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.

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.

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.

We can't be afraid to be weird.

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.

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

Life is too short to be a boring company.