Andy Dunn Quotes
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A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to the endeavor. When that energy goes away, it can feel impossible to do the job.
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The only reason courage exists is because sometimes it is required.
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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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The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'
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It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
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Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.
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The digitally native vertical brand (DNVB) is born on the Internet. It is aimed squarely at millennials and digital natives. It doesn't have to adapt to the future; it is the future. It doesn't need to get younger customers. It starts with younger customers.
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Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action.
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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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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.
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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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Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.
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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.
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Oddly, I believe that emotional proximity we feel to close loved ones makes it hard to be honest with them about feelings of depression.
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Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.
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I want to be Batman.
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To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.
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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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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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I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.
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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.
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People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.
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Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.
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No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.