Quotes from Andrew Mason

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

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.

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 look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.

One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.

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.

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.

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

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

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

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.

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.

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

If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop.

I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.

If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.

The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.

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

Life is too short to be a boring company.

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.

A lot of people can raise money.