Andy Dunn Quotes
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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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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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It's now arguably over-written about and over-discussed how hard it is to be an entrepreneur. Of course it's hard. So is being a parent. Let's stop over-congratulating ourselves and let's just do our work.
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What Americans do is we come to each other's aid.
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Every company can use someone advocating loudly for the customer.
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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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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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Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.
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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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Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
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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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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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A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.
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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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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?
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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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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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When the forces of liberalism and capitalism converge, change happens.
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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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It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
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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.
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The only reason courage exists is because sometimes it is required.
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Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.
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We do not talk enough about spirit in business, yet it is what moves employees, customers, and shareholders alike.