Andy Dunn

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.”

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

“History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.”

“Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn't feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet company.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.”

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

“My Indian grandmother was born in Punjab.”

“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.”

“A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to the endeavor. When that energy goes away, it can feel impossible to do the job.”

“Everyone is entitled to their own political opinions. It is what makes our country great.”

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

“Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.”