logo

Quotes About Founder

At the start of 1799, both of the banks in New York City happened to be the brainchildren of Alexander Hamilton: the Bank of New York and the local branch of the Bank of the United States.
~ Ron Chernow
Hamilton's achievements were never matched because he was present at the government's inception, when he could draw freely on a blank slate. If Washington was the father of the country and Madison the father of the Constitution, then Alexander Hamilton was surely the father of the American government.
~ Ron Chernow
veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David
~ Lee Child
He lived in the Hotel Coma--named perhaps for some founder of the town, some California explorer or pioneer, or for some long-deceased Italian immigrant who founded only the hotel itself. Whoever it commemorated, the hotel was a poor monument, and Billy Tully had no intention of staying on.
~ Leonard Gardner
Some twenty straw piles from mine slept the writer Walter Hasenclever, one of the founders of German expressionism.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
He had very few criticisms to make of Precious Ramotswe, his wife and founder of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, but if one were to make a list of her faults—which would be a minuscule document, barely visible, indeed, to the naked eye—one would perhaps have to include a tendency (only a slight tendency, of course) to claim that things that she happened to believe were well known.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
During the Second World War, he founded a war communications research project at the Library of Congress and recommended that the United States preserve democracy from authoritarianism by way of systematic, government-run mass manipulation.
~ Jill Lepore
I co-founded Affectiva with Professor Rosalind W. Picard when we spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009. I acted as Chief Technology and Science Officer for several years until becoming CEO mid-2016, one of a handful of female CEOs in the AI space.
~ Rana el Kaliouby
If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
~ Sam Altman
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
~ Marcus Garvey
I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
~ Adam Weishaupt
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
~ Ernst Mayr
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.
~ Bill Keller
When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once, and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day.
~ David Brock
The first causalities of a religion are the intentions of its founder
~ Louis de Bernieres
when it came to the parallel economic upheavals of the period—the industrial revolution, the expansion of global trade, the growth of banks and stock exchanges—Hamilton was an American prophet without peer. No other founding father straddled both of these revolutions—only Franklin even came close—and therein lay Hamilton's novelty and greatness.
~ Ron Chernow
En esta ciudad, Mahound, el negociante-profeta, está fundando una de las grandes religiones del mundo;
~ Salman Rushdie
Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.
~ H. Richard Niebuhr
Who is this guy?" "One of the founders of Wegetit," murmured Jeffrey. "Got his start in something called Structured Dialogic Design.
~ Ed Finn
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
~ Pat Robertson
The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation.
~ Richard Engel
Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.
~ Joe Lonsdale
It blows my mind when they call me the O.G. Flash.
~ John Wesley Shipp
Our original plan when we founded Waze was to sell the data, and we could keep it ad-free that way.
~ Noam Bardin