Founders Quotes

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

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.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'

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

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

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

Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist

If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

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

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

I try to help founders as much as I can, but so many of us we won't even take meetings with people who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before.

I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.

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

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

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

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

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

[John] Adams was the best and most colorful stylist among the Founders. Although [Tomas] Jefferson is widely regarded as the smoothest writer, Adams is by far the most engaging and imaginative.

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

I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

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

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

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

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

I was a child or didn't live through those presidents prior to [Ronald] Reagan, and thus didn't realize how little attention they had paid to the founders.

I was disappointed in how [Bill] Clinton, like [Jimmy] Carter, used the founders to argue for huge expansions in federal power, clearly beyond what the founders could have ever conceived.

Frankly, neither president [Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter] was an inspiring figure; so, maybe their lack of inspiration by the founders shouldn't surprise us.

There's the unique case of Ronald Reagan, who cited [founders] some 850 times, and in a way that was absolutely fundamental to understanding Reagan's vision for America.

Maybe the most interesting find in my research is that it is clear that Ronald Reagan, among all modern presidents, plainly rediscovered the founders.

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?

What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task... Usually it's best to have two or three people on a team rather than a solo founder.

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

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

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

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply writing down how you do things and why you do things.

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

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

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

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.