Quotes by Andy Dunn - Page 2

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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Fire
Becomes
Fails
Forest
Weeds
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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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Awful
Celebrate
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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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Great Always People
Ape
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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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Failure
Avoiding
Indomitable
Odds
Overwhelmed
Tenacity
Venture
Face
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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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Depression
Loved Ones
Proximity
Believe I Believe Feel
Oddly
To Be Honest
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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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Journey
Behavior
Evolution
Human Species
Long Journey
My Own
Species
Increasingly
Nonviolent
Tolerant
Toward
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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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America
Diversity
Hard
Human Rights
Inclusion
Political
Rights
Secured
Tolerance
Human
Fought
Opinions
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The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.
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Fascinating
Feminism
Documented
Equally
Talked
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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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Mentally
Executive
Hire
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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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Defensive
Discover
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The general rule is that entrepreneurs need the fear of their brand's demise to make it magic. It is too safe to do it as a corporate subsidiary.
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Corporate
Demise
Entrepreneurs
General Rule
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What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.
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Animal
Empathetic
Exception
Humans
Most
Possible
Other
Planet
Separates
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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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Society
Abuse
Events
Human Rights
Ignorance
Rights
Tragic
Unnoticed
Allow
Fight
Mission
Undocumented
Vital
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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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Amazing
Entrepreneur
Struggle
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It is obvious, in retrospect, to lean on those who love us most. With depression, in part because of the shame attached to it, it's harder to be honest.
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Obvious
Retrospect
Shame
Attached
Lean
To Be Honest
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Too many entrepreneurs think their valuation is the real economic price of their company. It's not. It's not a real economic price unless you are selling 100%.
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Selling
Entrepreneurs
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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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Lucky
One Day
Opinion
Bridge
Lead
In My Opinion
Skill
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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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Nike
Armour
Bmw
Conservation
Protection
Victory
Buy
Performance
Zen
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The story of the merchant is told by the marketer. They need each other, and if they get along, it's peanut butter and jelly. If they don't, it's oil and water.
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Jelly
Peanut Butter
Butter
Merchant
Peanut
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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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Messiah
Above
Lincoln
Perhaps
Union
Save
Seemingly
Sent
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Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.
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Optimistic
Balance
Belief
Reactions
Works
Pendulum
Perhaps
Swing
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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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Good Life
Life Family Good
Experienced
Youngest
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The digitally-native vertical brand drives a lot more customer intimacy than its competition. The data is better because every transaction and interaction is captured.
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Captured
Data
Interaction
Intimacy
Vertical
Customer
Drives
Transaction
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Maybe everyone lives forever. Or maybe, like in the animated movie 'Coco,' only those whose stories get told by the living definitely do. It takes a story worth telling.
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Animated
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Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.
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Disorder
Narcissistic
Therapy
Afflicted
Cured
Personality Disorder
Rarely
Sought
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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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Religion
Ambivalent
Baseball
Calling
Confused
Cubs
Felt
Saddened
Angered
Belonged
Came
Chose
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Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?
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Definitions
Manhood
Masculinity
Mean
Range
Real
Should
Wide
Why
Antiquated
Anymore
Does
Celebrating
Constrained
Even
Real Man
Stereotypes
Wide Range
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A founder plays a magical role at the company: they invented or, as in my case, co-invented it. If and when a founder walks out the door, there is something spiritual that walks out the door, too.
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Walks
Founder
Magical
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We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn't seem to care. Then we 'sold out' to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.
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Care
Carpet
Counting
Customers
Dozen
Industry
Red
Red Carpet
Walmart
Open
Few
Seem
Sold
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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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Business School
Debt
Firm
Investment
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Steady
Business Me Internet
Dreamed
Graduating
Offered
Steady Job
Valley
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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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Endeavor
Attracts
Capital
Founder
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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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Creation
Defiance
Distraction
Driven
Irreverence
Narcissism
Something New
Act
Arguably
Founder
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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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Parent
Arguably
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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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Entrepreneur
Address
Advantages
Good Idea
Ideally
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Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.
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Apparel
Executives
Force
Founding
Investors
One Day
Roof
Belong
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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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Definitions
Emerging
Gay Marriage
Liberation
Masculinity
Workplace
Positions
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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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New York
Dripping
Fraternity
Proud
Roots
Myself Always I Am
Myself I Am New
Bachelor
Days
Conversations
Myself I Am Always
Initiated
Shown
Thousands
Ways
York
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Marc Lore has been a mentor of mine for a long time. He taught me how to hire people and how to do the hardest thing in business, which is to make a great culture. I believe Marc is the most innovative and ambitious e-commerce entrepreneur on the planet.
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Ambitious
Entrepreneur
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Innovative
Mentor
Time Business Great
Hire
Lore
Marc
The Hardest Thing
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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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Future
Born
Customers
Digital
Internet
Millennials
Native
Vertical
Adapt
Younger
Brand
Squarely
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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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Entrepreneur
Good Things
Imbalance
Narcissism
Neglect
Obsession
Family Good Great
Companies
Frequently
Ignore
Universally
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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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Belief
Decision
Function
Odd
Path
Decisions
Entirely
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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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Bunch
Collision
Input
Output
Right Way
Together Culture People
Based
Context
Interact
Multiply
Specifically
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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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Battle
Dear
Disagree
Entitled
Time Always People
Donald
Donald Trump
Elected
Weigh
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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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Brilliant
Confusing
Founding
Legacy
Secured
Astonish
Fathers
Fighters
Founding Fathers
Magical
Slaves
Wives
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Most of the time, when you need something at a company, you make it. If you want to sell a product, you create it. If you need a head of marketing, you hire one. If you want to create a great company culture, what do you do? The lack of a clear answer on this is why I believe most companies don't have a great culture.
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Marketing
Hire
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A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.
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Bandwidth
Conflict
Duress
Flaws
Haze
Lifts
Protective
Seeing
Worst
Time Moment May
Examine
Recognize
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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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Ceo
Tension
Venture
Start Your Me
Board
Founder
Occur
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