Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
You must begin with God.
Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
L. Ron Hubbard [founder of Scientology] was a falling-down drunk who drank himself to death.
Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be so admirable. The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.
Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
David Harrington, who's the violinist and founder of Kronos, is a super open-minded and adventurous guy.
A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.
The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.
It's nearly impossible to overstate how fully my father has devoted himself to Apollo Group and its mission since he created Apollo Group four decades ago.
As one of the founders of Three 6 Mafia, I would like to see the group get back together, you know. But I am definitely thinking about it and would like to see it happen.
I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.
I think Bezos is incredible.
I didn't appreciate, coming out of corporate America... what it meant to a founder, the creator of the Macintosh, to be asked to step down from the very division that he created to lead the very product that he believed was going to change the world.
As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.
I passionately believe that you should start a company that you really believe in. Don't start something that you have no interest in, start something that you're passionate about.
I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.
Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.
At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.
Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.
I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.
