Top 524 Founders Quotes & Sayings

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

The Founders deliberately limited presidential authority.

Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way in which our secular universities have divorced their instruction from timeless truths like faith and freedom. Many of the professors at these places plainly don't respect the founders and, in particular, the religious foundation of the founders.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

The great companies get built by their founders

If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and exceptionalism of America, of a nation with a people facing another historic challenge beyond the American Revolution, and in contrasting the system of the United States with the system of the USSR.

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

Each company is different because they get their DNA from the founders.

Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved - and the more people who will be positively impacted by technology.

I tell founders all the time, 99.9 percent chance of failure.

Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.

I'm most proud of helping so many others achieve their dreams as founders.

The reality is the only place a company's culture is going to start and end is at the beginning of that company. And it always starts with the founders. So if you can't create an environment of founders and founding employees who are going to represent the company you want, then you are never going to get there. You have to look at your own network and find what you are missing. So if you don't have a female or someone who has an international perspective or a person with a bio degree, but those perspectives matter to the firm or product you want to create, then it's never going to work out.

I get a kick out of helping the next generation of founders.

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.

Smart founders are going anywhere to find talent.

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

The first time I went through YC, it was smaller, and the founders were younger. The advantage of that was that the set of founders who were older than us had really seen the Web 1.0 meltdown. They brought that knowledge to us.

In [Ronald] Reagan's view, the American Founders had anchored their experiment in Judeo-Christian beliefs; the Bolsheviks deliberately established an antithetical model. Those founders of communism divorced their "faith" from God.

I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.

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

Early-stage startups are all about the founders and team.

There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.

The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have a prototype. They have a little bit of traction, maybe one employee, tops. At that stage, you really, really can only evaluate a company based on those founders and what they've been able to build. It's very, very team driven.

Interest in the Founders has risen and fallen over time, as has admiration for them and their accomplishments.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

Conservatives are the heirs to the Founders' vision. But we have to act like it.

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

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

Petra Kelly is my inspiration, one of the founders of the German Greens.

The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

There is very little diversity among founders in the Unicorn Club.

The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.

Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.

My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

I was disappointed in how [Bill] Clinton, like [Jimmy] Carter, used the founders to argue for huge expansions in federal power, clearly beyond what the founders could have ever conceived.

There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.

Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills.

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

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

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.

Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

What we believe at Founders Fund is that technology is a way to help everybody on the planet.

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

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.

It is extremely gratifying to see success like exhibited by the founders of Instagram!

Great founders live for chaotic moments.

The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.