Andy Dunn Quotes
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It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
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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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The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.
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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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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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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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When the forces of liberalism and capitalism converge, change happens.
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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.
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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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Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action.
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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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Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.
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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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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 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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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.
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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 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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No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.
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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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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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I'm not naive enough to believe it's in our nature to step outside our comfort zones.