Founder Quotes

Whether they are patients needing access to affordable health care or survivors of a disaster, we do our best to ensure that people in need are not forgotten. Our founders established these values nearly 130 years ago, and we live by them today. - Sidney Taurel

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

When the founders spoke of the pursuit of happiness they didn't mean longer vacations or more stuff. This is what they meant. - David McCullough

When I got here, the founders were doing a few design projects that put Top Ramen on the table... a natural fit. - Howard Sherman

When I first retired, I just needed to keep active, so I started coaching riders. But then (Ride for Red founders) Joanne and Kevin (Gulliver) contacted me about coming here, and I started speaking a few times a year. - Kevin Livingston

When founders of a hedge fund are told they have to do such and such by compliance officers, that could be like having an employee tell the boss what to do, and that might not go over very well. - Karan Sampson

When [Handspring co-founder Jeff Hawkins] did the original design, he looked at the PCMCIA cards and Compact Flash, and said, 'If we could use one of these, we could leverage the support it already has,' ... People thinking in that board size and layout would be already prepped for that kind of slot. - Lee Epting

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. - Barack Obama

What happens with these guys (organizations) is it's very hard to find a successor. When the charismatic founder goes away, who's going to replace him? - Paul Harvey

We're thrilled to be selected by a venture capital firm like Spark, whose founders have a combined century of experience in building and backing leaders in media and technology. This latest round of VC financing will help fuel the next stage of our rapid growth, as we expand our development of digital media content management, syndication, advertising and mobile solutions. - Ian Blaine