Words matter. These are the best Andy Dunn Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.
There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!
When the forces of liberalism and capitalism converge, change happens.
The digitally-native vertical brand drives a lot more customer intimacy than its competition. The data is better because every transaction and interaction is captured.
From Nike, we buy victory. From Under Armour, we buy protection. From Lululemon, we buy zen. From Patagonia, we buy conservation. From BMW, we buy performance.
Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.
Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.
Maybe everyone lives forever. Or maybe, like in the animated movie ‘Coco,’ only those whose stories get told by the living definitely do. It takes a story worth telling.
A little narcissism is good. At least that’s what I am telling myself.
Marc Lore has been a mentor of mine for a long time. He taught me how to hire people and how to do the hardest thing in business, which is to make a great culture. I believe Marc is the most innovative and ambitious e-commerce entrepreneur on the planet.
A company that can’t fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.
‘I’m sorry, honey. I was wrong.’ Are there six more magical words you can say to your wife?
As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of these tragic events.
The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: ‘I alone can do this.’
Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.
The general rule is that entrepreneurs need the fear of their brand’s demise to make it magic. It is too safe to do it as a corporate subsidiary.
Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It’s an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.
Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.
Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn’t feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet company.
A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.
Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.
Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to ‘Be a Real Man’ anymore? Shouldn’t we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?
The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.
Too many entrepreneurs think their valuation is the real economic price of their company. It’s not. It’s not a real economic price unless you are selling 100%.
The illusion when things are going your way is that it’s gonna just keep going. But it never does.
We all have an entrepreneur in us; it’s just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.
The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it’s also the least talked about.
If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.
The American lionization of the entrepreneur is to ignore its foibles – the narcissism, the workaholism, the neglect of family, the imbalance, the obsession. These are not universally good things, though they are frequently universal to building great companies.
I’m not naive enough to believe it’s in our nature to step outside our comfort zones.
I’ve been in thousands of conversations dripping with misogyny. I’ve initiated many of those conversations myself. From my fraternity roots to my bachelor days in New York, I know I have not always shown up in ways that I am proud of.
What Americans do is we come to each other’s aid.
The life of an entrepreneur is the life of a human. Some days are amazing. Some days are a struggle. A lot are in between. It’s the same for all of us.
Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.
When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.
History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.
Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.
Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action.
A good idea is not enough. It must be the fit of a particular idea for a particular entrepreneur and, ideally, unfair advantages in why said particular entrepreneur is going to address said particular idea.
Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights – hard fought and secured in America.
A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.
In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn’t hire women because ‘it’s not worth the trouble.’ I mentally blacklist him.
No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.
Every company can use someone advocating loudly for the customer.
It’s easy to be cynical about American politics. It’s more important not to be.
Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.
Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.
If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.
Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.
‘Hamilton’ is not just the best musical I’ve ever seen. It may be the best thing I’ve ever seen.
We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn’t seem to care. Then we ‘sold out’ to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.
My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.
Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
Honesty is love.
The story of the merchant is told by the marketer. They need each other, and if they get along, it’s peanut butter and jelly. If they don’t, it’s oil and water.