Best 45 quotes in «founders quotes» category

I would rather lose money than trust

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

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

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

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

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

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

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

Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'

The founders wanted to make it hard for laws to be passed. They wanted to make it hard for there to be restrictions on the freedom of the people.

The great companies get built by their founders

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

There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.

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

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

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

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

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

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.

Founders never leave our memories for they leave indelible footprints on our minds. They give us the reasons to look back and ponder. They give us the reasons to look forward with the hope and aspirations to beating their footprints of distinctiveness. Their mistakes are our lessons and the reasons to reason.

It’s not just absolute power that the Founders sought to prevent. Implicit in its structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or “ism,” any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single, unalterable course, or drive both majorities and minorities into the cruelties of the Inquisition, the pogrom, the gulag, or the jihad. The Founders may have trusted in God, but true to the Enlightenment spirit, they also trusted in the minds and senses that God had given them. They were suspicious of abstraction and liked asking questions, which is why at every turn in our early history theory yielded to fact and necessity.

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

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.

Democracy is easy; republicanism is hard. Democracy is fueled by passion; republicanism is founded on moderation. Democracy is loud, raucous, disorderly; republicanism is quiet, cool, judicious – and that we still live in its light is the Founders' most wondrous deed.

It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Should founders of our lands one day wake up for a moment from their lasting sleep to see the lands and things they founded, they shall really have so many reasons to ponder over their lasting footprints!

The first servant-leader in any successful organization is its founder.

The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time!

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

All you've got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over.

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.

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

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?

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

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

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

I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.

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

If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.

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.

... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

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

It's not hard for a city like New York to create a $1.25 million fund. It's not hard for foundations to create funds that invest in diverse founders.

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