Andy Dunn Quotes
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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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I want to be Batman.
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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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Honesty is love.
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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.
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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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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.
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What Americans do is we come to each other's aid.
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Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.
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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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Every company can use someone advocating loudly for the customer.
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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.
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Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.
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The only reason courage exists is because sometimes it is required.
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A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.
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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.
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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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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.
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Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.
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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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When the forces of liberalism and capitalism converge, change happens.
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With more women in the workplace and in positions of power and leadership, with the legalization of gay marriage and the emerging liberation of the LGBTQ community, traditional definitions of masculinity are changing for the better.
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It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
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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?