Quotes About Founders

'Out of many, one' is the national motto, and what the Founders imagined it meant is that out of the great and celebrated differences between us comes one nation and one larger purpose.

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

The consensus of the founders was, we don't want no government: we want limited but effective government.

The Second Amendment is key to how this country was founded. The Founders put it in place so we could defend ourselves from enemies, foreign and domestic, to be honest with you, and honestly, we need to be able to keep and bear to protect ourselves, to protect our families, and to protect our country.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

There is very little diversity among founders in the Unicorn Club.

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

When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.

Founders, presuming they know their customers, assume they know all the features customers need.

Interest in the Founders has risen and fallen over time, as has admiration for them and their accomplishments.

It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.

Great founders live for chaotic moments.

Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.

In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.

Each company is different because they get their DNA from the founders.

Our founders thought long and hard about what the office of president should be. George Washington resisted the role, and then defined it.

America's founders knew the importance of allowing the people to speak critically about government actions.

Smart founders are going anywhere to find talent.

Our model is very, very different to LinkedIn. We only deal with very small companies. We don't have any support for recruiters. In fact, recruiters are not supposed to be on AngelList Talent. It's a direct market where we connect CEOs and the founders and the head of products with their talent directly.

I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.

Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish safeguards in the Constitution.