Top 415 Founder Quotes & Sayings

The SDP's founder, Roy Jenkins, was my hero and later mentor.

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

Start-ups often die in the first 18 to 24 months because of formative mistakes, like choosing a bad co-founder or the wrong corporate entity or an inappropriate platform. Ninety percent of the companies the Founder Institute has created are alive because we've helped them avoid those mistakes.

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

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a pupil a remark which equally applies to Leonardo or Michelangelo . But there can be no doubt that the basic features were conceived by a single mind; that Pythagoras of Samos was both the founder of a new religious philosophy, and the founder of Science, as the word is understood today.

I'm a very connected and passionate founder. And I do model transparency and openness and loyalty in my actions.

One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's.

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution?-?and you can't outsource this.

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

Chairman Mao was after all a principal founder of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. In evaluating his merits and mistakes, we hold that his mistakes were only secondary. What he did for the Chinese people can never be erased. In our hearts we Chinese will always cherish him as a founder of our Party and our state.

I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.

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

The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.

A founder plays a magical role at the company: they invented or, as in my case, co-invented it. If and when a founder walks out the door, there is something spiritual that walks out the door, too.

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

A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.

Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.

And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare to the founder; I worry about doing the best I can.

Pishevar, co-founder and managing director of Sherpa Capital, is a powerful figure in the Valley and a bridge to establishment figures on both coasts. He cultivated a relationship with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick and publicly came to his defense when he was ousted as chief executive officer and sued by another investor.

I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.

The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus instead on the positive aspects of her philosophy. There is much in it to admire, if you do not have to accept the whole package... Criticism of the founder or followers of a philosophy does not, by itself, constitute a negation of any part of the philosophy... Criticism of part of a philosophy does not gainsay the whole.

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.'

In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

As a founder, you are a very active component of your company.

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

I have only admiration and affection for the people of Sherpa Capital, including my co-founder Scott Stanford.

I think, as a founder and entrepreneur, you just keep hustling through it.

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.

I was the founder of the Cartoon Bank in the 90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

As a female founder and CEO, it is important to me to support other women as they build their businesses.

You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly understands that you really can help them both operationally and from a strategic standpoint.

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.

Rob Kalin, Etsy's founder, never finished college. Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey - the founders of Twitter - are not college graduates. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, is another dropout. And, of course, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

The founder of the BDS movement is blatantly anti-Semitic.

In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man.

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of the human race as Perfect Man has ever been imitated so minutely.The conduct of the founder of Christianity has not governed the ordinary life of his followers. Moreover, no founder of a religion has left on so solitary an eminence as the Muslim apostle.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.

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

The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.

I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.

So as a founder, you have an authenticity and a human factor that is really special and that gives an enormous amount of energy and fuel. But as a founder, you’re also not as cold, maybe, or as pragmatic.

At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven't got enough hustle to find a co-founder who's got hustle, it's going to be tough. You've got to have a little hustle in you.

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

Calvin was virtually the founder of America.

It's important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees.