Quotes By Andrew Mason

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

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

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.

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 just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

I don't get stressed out.

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.

A lot of people can raise money.

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

Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

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

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

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.