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.

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

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.

I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.

After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.

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

We can't be afraid to be weird.

I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

Life is too short to be a boring company.

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

I don't know what hurts more...those moments I ache for you to be here or those moments when you are here and I wonder if it is the last time I will feel you.

people tell you so much more when they know you're just about to be dead . and then they talk around you, when you are.

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Businesses get better only when the people in the business get better.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.