Quotes from Andy Dunn

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

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.

Honesty is love.

Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action.

My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.

The only reason courage exists is because sometimes it is required.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm not naive enough to believe it's in our nature to step outside our comfort zones.

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.

'I'm sorry, honey. I was wrong.' Are there six more magical words you can say to your wife?

Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.

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.

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

A little narcissism is good. At least that's what I am telling myself.

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

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