Founders Quotes

I would rather lose money than trust

I know that through the grace of God, I am the founder of Manitoba.

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

Calvin was virtually the founder of America.

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

The great companies get built by their founders

All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'

America's founders were clear that the Constitution established a federal government of few and defined powers. It cannot regulate any activity it chooses, but they only regulate in those areas which the Constitution grants it power to regulate.

If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

You can't always say what's popular and you ought to go with it. I think that's why the founders were concerned about direct democracy. That's why we have a republic and that's why we have representatives who who are supposed to look at the issues and to look out for the next generation as well.

Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.

In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.

I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat.

[John] Adams was the best and most colorful stylist among the Founders. Although [Tomas] Jefferson is widely regarded as the smoothest writer, Adams is by far the most engaging and imaginative.

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture.

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.

Speaking of [Ronald] Reagan on the faith of the founders, he was particularly fond of George Washington, who he cited nearly 200 times, and almost twice as much as all the presidents since [John F.]Kennedy combined.

The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.