Andrew Mason Quotations

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

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

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.

The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide.

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

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.

Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal.

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.

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

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