Andy Dunn Quotes

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

I'm a hustler. I'm the Boss.

I don't give up. I'm definitely meant to be an entrepreneur.

Musk is very inspiring to me.

We have kind of turned our back on the fact that hard work, sacrifice, risk-taking, innovation, is what made America great.

I've always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

Great founders live for chaotic moments.

What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.

It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get in a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe. We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the beginning of it and we’re able to shape how it goes. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

I've not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people to do things that maybe they thought weren't possible.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.