Andy Dunn Quotes
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My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.
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The people that elected Donald Trump are Americans. They are every bit as entitled to weigh in on who should lead as any of us. The fact that they disagree with the values some of us hold dear is the point - America has always been about a battle of ideas that plays out over time.
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I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.
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We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.
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There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!
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A little narcissism is good. At least that's what I am telling myself.
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You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.
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Lincoln was an American messiah, seemingly sent by God to save our country, our union, and our soul. He prioritized unity above all. Perhaps we should do the same.
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The youngest boy in an Indian family has a good life. Growing up in a matriarchal family where my Indian mom's culture was dominant, I experienced this first hand.
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I want to be Batman.
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'I'm sorry, honey. I was wrong.' Are there six more magical words you can say to your wife?
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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.
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Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
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My definition of gender expands beyond just two genders.
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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.
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Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.
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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.
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A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.
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Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.
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I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery.
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Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.
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Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
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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.
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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.