Andrew Mason Quotes

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.

The Godrej group is expanding rapidly. However, we are not diversifying much.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

In 'That Will Never Work,' I give readers a clear-eyed insider's look into how one of the least likely startups grew into one of the world's most successful companies.

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.

I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I've always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn't sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I'm in a fortunate position.

The business aspect and the social aspect of FEED go hand in hand. The more we can strengthen our business, the more we are able to give. And the more we can focus on giving back, the more customers will want to buy our products, thus strengthening our business.

Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of.

For decades, I've spoken of McDonald's as one of the premier examples of how to build a company, scale it, and ultimately sell it.

By definition, as a company scales rapidly, it adds people quickly.

There are a lot more companies with a lot younger people. It is just like 23-year-olds are starting companies, and they are scaling really quickly.

When I started Mediaite, I didn't expect it to become the business that it's become.

When we got quite big and were generating a lot of money through the arenas, we became quite a big thing, and a lot of managers appeared, and it became a big machine, like we were in Pink Floyd or something, and I don't think we were into that. We didn't really compromise.

It's a lot easier to gain traction when there is such a great proliferation of Internet access. The velocity at which some of these startups are gaining traction is mind-boggling. Companies like ShoeDazzle, Stella & Dot, Gilt, Groupon - these companies are going from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue in three years.

I have seen a lot of now-great companies at their earliest stages, and these early-stage startups are not built by the senior people who know how to run and scale big-company machines.

Trends start and then explode very quickly, and pretty soon it's everywhere, including McDonalds.

With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

Many tech companies experience steep growth curves that require them to build their teams at breakneck speeds.