Andy Dunn Quotes

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Andy Dunn

Profession : Businessman

Birth : February 20, 1979

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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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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The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

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

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

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

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

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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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Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.

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

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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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Every company can use someone advocating loudly for the customer.

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

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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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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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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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