Founders Quotes · Page 7

How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders…

— Edward Feser

...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the…

— Michael Shermer

When our founders created America, it was in the age of the printing press, when individuals could freely join the conversation. And…

— Al Gore

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

— Oliver D. Crisp

You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the financial wherewithal and risk appetite…

— Sarah Lacy

Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where…

— Ronald Reagan

I started, me by myself, found a great co-founder, got up to 95 people, and then it ended with me by myself again.

— Dan Stuart

Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real…

— Ralph C. Smedley

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business…

— Alexander Osterwalder

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed,…

— John Adams

The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just…

— Marissa Mayer

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

— Sam Altman

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

— Kathryn Finney

Like a lot of small press founders I was looking for a way into publishing - as well as a way out…

— Andrew Latimer

I am a community activist, philanthropist, breast cancer survivor, advocate and founder and board chair of the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer…

— Thelma Jones

The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular…

— Barack Obama

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

— John Cleese

So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like…

— James Lileks

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

— Otto E. Neugebauer

The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of…

— Brigham Young

The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

— David Barton

Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google…

— Barry Ritholtz

I really appreciate crafts. I like cooking. I love food and drink. I love owning that through Instagram. Although that can be…

— Kevin Systrom

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

— Jesse Helms