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“Many businesses fail because the founders don’t realize that they are going to be more than just the founder or the owner of that business.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.”
― Paul Graham

“Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...”
― David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp

“It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”
― Charles A. Beard

“Providence has given to our people the choice of their ruler, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. John Jay First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.”
― John Jay, Cliffs Notes on The Federalist

“Discipline is a prerequisite of greatness.
Nobody becomes great by accident.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“Our First Amendment freedoms give us the right to think what we like and say what we please. And if we the people are to govern ourselves, we must have these rights even if they are misused by a minority.”
― James Madison

“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government.”
― Joseph Story

“The basic principal of this government is the will of the people.”
― Robert Marion La Follette

“Let us humbly commit our righteous cause to the great Lord of the Universe ... Let us joyfully leave our concerns in the hands of Him who raises up and puts down the empires and kingdoms of the earth as He pleases.”
― John Hancock

“at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the [First] Amendment...the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the State so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. Any attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation.”
― Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States

“Any every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law: and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law. Massachusetts Constitution.”
― Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Published in Conformity to a Resolve of the Legislature of April 26, 1853

“I make my mistakes out loud, giving people a chance to learn from the echoes they create.”
― Molly M. Cantrell-Kraig, Circuit Train Your Brain: Daily Habits That Develop Resilience

“Hermione’s not the only one willing to open a book, you know? It’s textbooks I don’t care forâ€� hundred pages of twaddle for every useful bit.â€�

McGonagall replied archly, “That ‘twaddleâ€� represents a thousand years of intensive study and improvements in practice, Potter. Our people have deified the Hogwarts founders for far too long, and I ask that you reject that example. Rowena Ravenclaw, for all her greatness, could not have performed much of third-year transfiguration — even the tools for constructing spells at that level did not yet exist.”
― Mike [FP], Harry Potter and the Last Horcrux

“Woodism - “Be in it to win for yourself; be open to all the possibilities of the journey!”
― Kathleen Wood, Founderology: The Ultimate Employee Guide to Succeed with any Boss in any Workplace

“Woodism - “Control what you can control and let go of the rest.”
― Kathleen Wood, Founderology: The Ultimate Employee Guide to Succeed with any Boss in any Workplace

“Founders must decide in moments of crisis to view them as danger or as a unique opportunity for change and improvement.”
― Kathleen Wood, Founderology: The Ultimate Employee Guide to Succeed with any Boss in any Workplace

“Hall Jackson Kelley considered himself to be the Messiah of Oregon, but he was only its John the Baptist, crying in the wilderness. He inspired thousands who turned their eyes toward Oregon because of his burning message; most notable of whom were the other two members of that Massachusetts triumvirate, Nathaniel J. Wyeth and Captain Bonneville, who were to open up the Snake River country for the Americans.”
― Frank C. Robertson, Fort Hall: Gateway to the Oregon Country

“Respect and learn from your elders, have manners, listen and absorb from their decades of wisdom.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“Gatekeepers can only "gatekeep" so much of the world, but it's a big world out there.
Don't let anyone stop you”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“The best coach knows you better than you know yourself. Then enables you to discover your true self and potential while guiding your steps till you reach your goals, one by one.”
― Cristina Imre

“A founder isn't blinded by the conventional wisdom of the present, they've recognised the patterns of the past and see the clues to the future, now”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“There's two types of founders

Parasitic:

They're happy to profit from destruction, removal of freedoms, tightening of controls + use exploitation.

Symbiotic:

They're determined to empower, increase independence, decentralise controls + won't exploit.

There is no in-between.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“These selfless warriors of the Revolution and sages of the Constitutional Convention had been forced to descend from their Olympian heights and adjust to a rougher world of everyday politics, where they cultivated their own interests and tried to capitalize on their former glory. In consequence, the founding fathers all appear to us in two guises: as both sublime and ordinary, selfless and selfish, heroic and humdrum”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“God is the founder of Berry. I am only the human founder.”
― Martha Berry

“Innovation is the propeller of generations and the catalyst to evolution. Thus, we intrepidly advance concepts that are, at times, overlooked.”
― Ahavel Aborishade

“The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.”
― Gore Vidal

“Thus, when we speak of American Idealism, we speak with reverence to the values and virtues that this nation was founded upon. We remember the hell from which this paradise was raised. We honor our forefathers for their bravery and sacrifice. We hold true to the principles of their established order. We recognize and respect the distinct identity and character of the American.”
― Tanner Cook, The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny

“I see many startup founders chasing 'AI pipe dreams'. I encourage them to focus on solving real customer problems and not trying to impress investors by showing AI on their pitch deck.”
― Jason Hishmeh, The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies

“The best artists are like a great magician with a sleight of hand.”
― Brian Brewer