Andy Dunn Quotes

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Andy Dunn

Profession : Businessman

Birth : February 20, 1979

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

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

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A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.

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

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

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

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

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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 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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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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Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.

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People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

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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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Entrepreneurs are not that special. If you are one, stop drinking the Kool Aid, and if you aren't, definitely don't drink it.

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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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My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.

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