Andrew Mason

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange. ”

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

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

Life is too short to be a boring company. ”

Life is not about money. ”

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

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you. ”

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. ”

Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to. ”