[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.
What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.
We do think founders should be treated like athletes, going for gold really hard.
Co-founders shouldn't excel in the same areas - it's inefficient and will inevitably lead to conflicts down the road.
We will hear more regrets from founders of tech companies about the addictive technologies they have launched.
Founders are exceptional, and they all want to go back to creating. And I feel privileged to be able to do that.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
However small a company, its founders should try to expand people's opportunities and choices.
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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.
I think motivation and drive, coupled with raw talent, help make founders successful.
The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.
Founders always say, 'I'm going to 'make my thing go viral' - that doesn't mean just adding a share button.
I don't think that our Founders would believe that America could long prosper if the people were not readers.
In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.
It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.
The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.
Our Founders thought politicians should be accountable when it comes to citizens' right to life, liberty and the pursuit of heart surgery.
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
America's founders knew the importance of allowing the people to speak critically about government actions.
Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.
Our founders built a new order atop specifically European intellectual traditions.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
Most super PACs are a money-laundering operation that exists solely to enrich the members or its founders.
It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.
The beauty of being co-founders with your spouse is that we run our business and family together.
Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.
Male founders who come across as Type B are more likely to get the benefit of the doubt.
Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.
The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.
Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.
The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.
I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'
Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.
There is a directory where you can explore every single person who has gone through YC and a private forum that only founders can participate in.
You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.
'Imitation Girl' is a feature written and directed by Natasha Kermani. She's one of the founders of Illium Pictures who co-produced 'Pod.'
Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.
It's not at all a secret that I was one of the co-founders of Brand New Congress, and we've never tried to hide our goals.
Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a diversion.
Our love for the Founders leads us to abandon, and even to betray, the very principles they fought for.
A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.
Minority founders often feel like they are on the outside looking in when it comes to Silicon Valley and tech startups in general.
The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.
I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.
After reading the Elon Musk book and getting a Tesla - he is at the top of my list of inspiring founders.
I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.
The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.
In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.
... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.
I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.
Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.
The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.
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