No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are not that special. If you are one, stop drinking the Kool Aid, and if you aren't, definitely don't drink it. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds,… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.' — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
We do not talk enough about spirit in business, yet it is what moves employees, customers, and shareholders alike. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
A good idea is not enough. It must be the fit of a particular idea for a particular entrepreneur and, ideally, unfair… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Marc Lore has been a mentor of mine for a long time. He taught me how to hire people and how to… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn't feel right. It… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
A founder plays a magical role at the company: they invented or, as in my case, co-invented it. If and when a… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
The life of an entrepreneur is the life of a human. Some days are amazing. Some days are a struggle. A lot… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
The general rule is that entrepreneurs need the fear of their brand's demise to make it magic. It is too safe to… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Too many entrepreneurs think their valuation is the real economic price of their company. It's not. It's not a real economic price… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
The American lionization of the entrepreneur is to ignore its foibles - the narcissism, the workaholism, the neglect of family, the imbalance,… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Most of the time, when you need something at a company, you make it. If you want to sell a product, you… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
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… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
The life of an entrepreneur is the life of a human. Some days are amazing. Some days are a struggle. A lot are in… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
'I'm sorry, honey. I was wrong.' Are there six more magical words you can say to your wife? — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to the endeavor.… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
