Comfort Quote by Ratan Tata

The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.

— Marc Randolph

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

There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you…

— Christopher Poole

In every investment, before I get involved or invest, I always see what the mindset of the founder, the CEO, is.

— Zaza Pachulia

I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.

— Adam Draper

And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they…

— Sanjay Kumar

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an…

— Ratan Tata

I think, as a founder and entrepreneur, you just keep hustling through it.

— Payal Kadakia

For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive…

— Lynn Jurich

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

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

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work…

— Maynard Webb