Founders Quotes · Page 4

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

— Justin Kan

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions...

— George Washington

Gratitude BRINGS MORE to be grateful about, so today I make the point of expressing gratitude for everything in my LIFE!

— Louise Hay

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.

— Sam Altman

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were…

— Ron Paul

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

— Robert Mankoff

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

— Al Franken

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

— James Madison

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

— David Barton

If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.

— Michael Beckwith

What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task . Usually it's best to have two…

— Reid Hoffman

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be…

— George Washington

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the…

— Jessica Livingston

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

— James Altucher

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Former Enron founder Ken Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling found guilty in the Enron case. Ken Lay is so guilty I'm surprised…

— Jay Leno

As an immigrant, my wish is that we fix immigration. At Sequoia, we've backed a number of exceptional founders that were born…

— Alfred Lin

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They…

— David McCullough

There are three things you need to do as a CEO-founder. Think strategically, drive design, and drive technology. Some people who are…

— Keith Rabois

Over the long term, the eclipse rate of great civilizations being overtaken is 100%. So you know how it's going to end.…

— Charlie Munger

Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was…

— Christopher Hitchens

Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment…

— Tertullian

There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example,…

— Isabel Wilkerson

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree…

— Ariel Gore

At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

— Thomas Jefferson

People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's…

— Noah Weinberg

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.

— Patrick Collison

The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

— David Barton

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

— George Washington

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

— Bryan Fischer

However small a company, its founders should try to expand people's opportunities and choices.

— Richard Branson

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

— Frederick William Faber

Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their…

— Tim LaHaye

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

— Sam Altman

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

— Ralph Nader

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

— Molly Ivins

We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.

— W. H. Auden