Andy Dunn Quotes
-
Honesty is love.
-
Every company can use someone advocating loudly for the customer.
-
Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.
-
The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical country. They also were slaveowners - which is confusing to their legacy. How could such brilliant men have only secured freedom for themselves, but not their wives or their slaves?
-
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.
-
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.
-
Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.
-
When the forces of liberalism and capitalism converge, change happens.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.
-
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.
-
Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.
-
Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
-
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.
-
The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.
-
Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.
-
Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.
-
Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.
-
We do not talk enough about spirit in business, yet it is what moves employees, customers, and shareholders alike.
-
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.