Founders Quotes - Page 14

• I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Hope, America

  Pre-Inauguration Address at the Lincoln Memorial, delivered 18 January 2009, Washington, D.C.

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• The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.

  Hugo Black

  Expression, Church, Principles

  "Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421". Writing for the court, 1962.

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• I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

  Ariel Gore

  Christian, Positive Thinking, Hands

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• The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

  Robert Pozen

  Crazy, Hard Times, Entrepreneur

  "How To Delegate Responsibility To Other People" by Aimee Groth, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2013.

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

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Brother, Hip Hop, Hips

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• It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Jobs, Stars, Zuckerberg

  "What Can Zuckerberg Learn From Steve Jobs?" by Marcus Buckingham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2012.

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• The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.

  Michael Beschloss

  Country, Party, Italian

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• Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Eight, Years

  "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago - Now it's Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

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• The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

  Rafael Correa

  Sin, Socialism, Construction

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• Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Opportunity, Classic, Internet

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• The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of boobs for five seconds.

  Cecily Strong

  Integrity, Technology, Years

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• The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to frustrate the schemes of social redeemers and others convinced of their own invincible virtue.

  David Horowitz

  Passion, Political, Healthy

  David Horowitz (2016). “The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz”, p.154, Encounter Books

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• Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

  Bill Keller

  Believe, Principles, Wikileaks

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• Keeping a 'CEO blog' or 'founder's blog' can be a great platform for engaging your users in a nontraditional way, reaching people outside of your product pitch and building rapport without selling them anything except a belief in your ideas.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Ideas, People, Way

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• I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

  Todd McFarlane

  Book, Writing, Artist

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• There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

  Victoria Moran

  Queens, Order, Mind

  "The Case for Turning ‘Spa’ into a Verb" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2011.

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

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Liberty

  David Barton (2013). “Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion”, p.30, BookBaby

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• Former Enron founder Ken Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling found guilty in the Enron case. Ken Lay is so guilty I'm surprised people aren't calling him Congressman Ken Lay. Wait 'till these guys find out in prison that insider trading has a whole new meaning.

  Jay Leno

  People, Guy, Waiting

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• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  Aaron Levie

  Moving, College, Two

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• Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.

  Ben Yagoda

  Children, Effectiveness, Order

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• I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.

  Sargent Shriver

  Running, Spiritual, Religious

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• People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.

  Eduardo Saverin

  People, Trying, Bankers

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• In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

  Maynard Webb

  Opportunity, Talking, Google

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• 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

  Population, Doe, Novelty

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman Empire... Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a hold sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Men, Order

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