Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Andy Dunn - Page 2

Not all Millennials think alike. A demographic is not a psychographic.

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.

If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.

Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.

When the forces of liberalism and capitalism converge, change happens.

Every company can use someone advocating loudly for the customer.

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.

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.

The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.

The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.

Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.

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.

Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.

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.

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.

Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

Oddly, I believe that emotional proximity we feel to close loved ones makes it hard to be honest with them about feelings of depression.

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.

Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.

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.

However much risk we are taking, we can and probably should take more.

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.

At Bonobos, we believe that human beings are tired of shopping in stores.

'Hamilton' is not just the best musical I've ever seen. It may be the best thing I've ever seen.

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.

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.

I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

My own belief is all men should be feminists, and with enthusiasm.

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.

Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.

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.

No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.

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.

We do not talk enough about spirit in business, yet it is what moves employees, customers, and shareholders alike.

There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!

Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it's also the least talked about.

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.

It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.

A great brand starts with a hero product.

The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.

If you can’t decide what to do, get on the road. You won’t find the answer. It will find you.