Being Quote by Justin Kan

Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about where it is you want…

— Reid Hoffman

As a founder, you are a very active component of your company.

— Justin Kan

One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

— Mitch Kapor

Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an…

— Andy Dunn

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

— Sam Altman

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

— Ben Horowitz

I'm a very connected and passionate founder. And I do model transparency and openness and loyalty in my actions.

— Julia Hartz

A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great…

— Ratan Tata

If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that…

— Ratan Tata

Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.

— Paul Allen

When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.

— Martin Cooper

So as a founder, you have an authenticity and a human factor that is really special and that gives an enormous amount of energy…

— Diane von Furstenberg