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There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special. — Michael Moritz

Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a diversion. — Mark McKinnon

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes ... — David Mazzucchelli

Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise. — Charles Colson

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new. — Kevin Rose

Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice. — Marianne Williamson

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

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

Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission. — Naval Ravikant

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders. — Ursula Burns

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

In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect. — Sam Altman

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

Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization. — Daniel Webster

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens. — Walter E. Williams

RUTHERFORD PIERCE TO LEAD REPORTERS ON TOUR OF FOUNDERS MEDIA HEADQUARTERS SITE IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON. — Jude Watson

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

We honor founders of these starving cities,
Whose honor is the image of our sorrow. — W. H. Auden

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

I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here. — Josh Kopelman

Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that. — Sam Yagan

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder. — Robert Schumann

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder. — H. Richard Niebuhr

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class. — Carly Fiorina

I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock. — Arthur Rock

But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it. — Yann Martel

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders. — Seamus Heaney

Many founders hire just because it seems like a cool thing to do, and people always ask how many employees you have. — Sam Altman

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them. — Peter Thiel

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

You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this. — Sam Altman

democracy without real patriotism moves toward the destruction of the ordered liberty bequeathed to us by the founders. — Eric Metaxas

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

Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away. — John Lasseter

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

The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple. — Jerry Yang

What we believe at Founders Fund is that technology is a way to help everybody on the planet. — Luke Nosek

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

The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation. — David Barton

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

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

The great companies get built by their founders — Marc Andreessen

James Pierpont, one of the founders of Yale University. — Susie J. Pak

Neither nations nor children should be conceived in public. — James D. Best

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

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. — Amy Richards

We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation. — Viv Grigg

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

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world ... not make a fast buck. — Guy Kawasaki

All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight. — Rudolf Steiner

For the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders. — Sam Altman

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

In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders. — Gore Vidal

Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers. — Sam Altman

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up. — Sam Altman

Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat. — Sam Altman

The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion. — Adam Weishaupt

the founders concluded, if God himself does not violate the religious freedom of man, then surely government shouldn't either. — David Platt

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

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

I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead. — Brian Acton

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly. — Sam Altman

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

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

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows. — Sam Altman

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows. — John Lawson

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved. — Sam Altman

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met. — John C. Maxwell

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders. — Nancy Lublin

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic. — Andrew Johnson

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy. — Ron Paul

If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart. — Bernie Sanders

Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip. — Sam Altman

A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost. — Alfred North Whitehead

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

The farmers are the founders of civilization. — Daniel Webster

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash. — Afrika Bambaataa

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

I know that through the grace of God, I am the founder of Manitoba. — Louis Riel

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom. — Mike Pence

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

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

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. — Paul Ryan

Calvin was virtually the founder of America. — Leopold Von Ranke

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution. — Barack Obama

Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture. — Sam Altman

Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders. — Paul Watson

You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders. — Sam Altman

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

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were. — Jessica Livingston

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

My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings. — Sam Yagan

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. — Kathryn Finney

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

Founders often had to step aside to let corporate "grown-ups" raise their babies - that was just how Silicon Valley worked. — Gina Keating