Founders Quotes - Page 19

• So as a founder, you have an authenticity and a human factor that is really special and that gives an enormous amount of energy and fuel. But as a founder, you’re also not as cold, maybe, or as pragmatic.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Giving, Special, Energy

  "Diane Von Furstenberg And Jack Dorsey Talk Influences, Parents, And Whether Or Not They'd Make Good Employees". Fast Company Interview, www.fastcompany.com. July 17, 2013.

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• It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a pupil a remark which equally applies to Leonardo or Michelangelo . But there can be no doubt that the basic features were conceived by a single mind; that Pythagoras of Samos was both the founder of a new religious philosophy, and the founder of Science, as the word is understood today.

  Arthur Koestler

  Religious, Philosophy, Filled In

  Arthur Koestler (2017). “The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

  Talib Kweli

  Christian, Love You, Feminist

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• The fact that other countries spy on their own people or spy on each other does not address the fact that the US is engaged in massive, bulk collection to the tune of 70.3 million telecommunications a month in France of perfectly innocent people. That has nothing to do with protecting the United States, and has nothing to do with really gathering any kind of meaningful intelligence on France. It is an overreach ... and I think the other countries are justifiably outraged .... As one of our founders said: Those who choose between liberty and security deserve neither.

  Jesselyn Radack

  Meaningful, Country, Thinking

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• U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

  Zig Ziglar

  War, Party, Men

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• Police officers today are a protected class, one no politician wants to oppose. Law enforcement interests may occasionally come up short on budgetary issues, but legislatures rarely if ever pass new laws to hold police more accountable, to restrict their powers, or to make them more transparent. In short, police today embody all of the threats the Founders feared were posed by standing armies, plus a few additional ones they couldn't have anticipated.

  Radley Balko

  Army, Class, Issues

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• Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Public Opinion, Cracks

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• The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

  Marianne Williamson

  Party, Farewell, Essence

  "This is Los Angeles: We Don’t Do the Same Old, Same Old Here" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.

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• The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.

  Jonathan Reckford

  Prayer, Loss, Giants

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• The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

  Ben Horowitz

  Jobs, Mistake, Mean

  "Ben Horowitz: Founders Should Learn How To Be CEO" by Boonsri Dickinson, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Mean, Ideas

  "HOROWITZ TELLS ALL: This Guy Just Raised A $1.5 Billion Fund". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

  Robert Schumann

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• Every business is manmade. It is a result of individuals. It reflects the personalities and the business philosophy of the founders and those who have directed its affairs throughout its existence. If you want to have an understanding of any business, it is important to know the background of the people who started it and directed its past and the hopes and ambitions of those who are planning its future.

  Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

  Philosophy, Ambition, Past

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

  Nancy Lublin

  Country, Bones, Entrepreneurship

  "Innovation is Great but Execution is Better" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2009.

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• Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Hands, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.782, Modern Library

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• The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

  Franz Kafka

  God, Law, Faithful

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Leadership, Running, Zuckerberg

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• The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

  David Barton

  Christian, Running, Religious

  David Barton (1991). “America, to Pray Or Not to Pray?: A Statistical Look at What Hapened When Religious Principles Were Separated from Public Affairs”, Wallbuilder Press

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• The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Expression

  David Barton (2013). “Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion”, p.24, BookBaby

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• From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, Anchors

  William J. Bennett (1989). “Our Children and Our Country: Improving America's Schools and Affirming the Common Culture”, Touchstone Books

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• So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like an amendment requiring the sun to rise in the east; it would fall under the category of obvious truths that the Constitution need not address.

  James Lileks

  Fall, Guy, East

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• For nearly five decades the World Federalists have worked to promote a strengthened UN and more effective institutions of global governance. I offer my personal endorsement. Now a great opportunity has opened for the realization of the dreams of the UN's founders.

  Walter Cronkite

  Dream, Opportunity, Realization

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• I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first.

  Shirley Temple

  Country, August, Hands

  "Prague Journal; Shirley Temple Black Unpacks a Bag of Memories" by Craig R. Whitney, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 1989.

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• Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

  Peter Thiel

  Average, People, Normal

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• Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

  Alan Keyes

  Rights, Order, Would Be

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