#is

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#change #change the world #ends #exist #fundamentally

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. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#because #business #business owners #business people #cooking

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. ↗

— George Mason

#discourages #manufactures #slavery

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. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#brand #built #business #business model #carried

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#am #audience #audience member #concerned #critic

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. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#bike #businessperson #capitalist #die #fall

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. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#businesses #exist #few #how #i

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

— Andrew Mason

#companies #financial #group #list #own

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. ↗

— George Mason

#convince #experience #few #greatest #happened

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. ↗

— George Mason

#disgraceful #itself #mankind #slaves #states