Founder Quotes

“If you're not constantly testing, you're going to be tested constantly.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“It's impossible to leave positive footprints behind when you're gone, if you always walked on worried tiptoes before you left.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“We are all vessels of profound possibilities.

When we learn to accept we're not the creator, but simply a conduit of knowledge...

Then we can create.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“The beauty of entrepreneurship lies in witnessing those determined spirits, who wake up every day to multiple rejections and yet still focus on 'failing' forward.”
― Hani W. Naguib, Mindset to startup: The mindset and tools you need to create a value-centric business

“The first servant-leader in any successful organization is its founder.”
― Salil Jha

“Insiders who question the status quo get pushed out, but outsiders are the ones who change the status quo.

Ever notice that many startup founders that disrupt industries are outsiders to their industry?”
― Richie Norton

“Vision could be fiction for others, it is certainty for the visionary.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Creflo Dollar is the founder of World Changers Church International where he leads as a co-senior pastor.”
― Creflo Dollar

“Exits are great but it’s better to do it as a choice, not a consequence of bad moda operandi.”
― Richie Norton

“Storytelling doesn't mean you go into other peoples world. It means you bring them into yours”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“A startup founder is like a conductor of an orchestra, initially playing every instrument.

Whilst playing the instruments also finding talented people to take over each instrument and raise $ to buy better instruments.

All whilst ensuring the crowd doesn't leave and grows!”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“You can't skip what's important!”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“Paper gains do not equal cash on cash returns”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“The most important components of leading other people are trust and communication”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“In startups, if your flywheels aren't turning, you aint earning.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“The more you understand your value, the more you'll distance and detach from the things that don't.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“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

“In the end, the route of the journey does not matter.

So long as you have the will to arrive, you have enough for everything and will arrive when you're supposed to.

Learn and enjoy your journey.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“When you come from nothing, you understand the value of everything.

There'll be inevitable periods of overcompensation and even an inferiority complex.

Once you're over that and truly understand your own value, it's powerful.

Anything you put your mind to, you'll achieve!”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“Education and teachers, Both are the backbone of the nation.”
― Somen Kanungo, Founder, Nexgen Bangladesh

“You can only illuminate the path of possibility, you can't force people to walk down it.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“Although she has a reputation as a serious and hardworking professional in her field of biomedical research, Trisha Pfluger, M.S., PMP, a Northwest Arkansas resident, still thinks of herself as a fun, approachable person. When not working, Trisha Pfluger of Northwest Arkansas takes the time to meditate and hike with her dog on the beautiful trails of Northwest Arkansas (NWA) near her retreat home. Since founding Juno Biomedical in 2014, Trisha Pfluger, a Northwest Arkansas businesswoman, has led the company to great success in developing next generation deep brain stimulation (DBS) technology in close collaboration with a team of experts at the FDA.”
― Trisha Pfluger Arkansas

“If the universe is an entity or say a company then Brahma is the founder or CEO, Vishnu is the COO and Shiva is the CRO.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“Stanley Trezevant III has been involved in the development of various office and retail products. He co-founded Trezevant Properties before establishing TRC and has since been recognized for his contributions to the industry.”
― Stanley Trezevant III

“Real estate investment expert, Sief Khafagi is changing the game with short-term rentals. A former techie who worked at Facebook for five years building the second-largest engineering organization across the world, Sief is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Techvestor. He and his team have helped thousands of investors diversify their portfolios to add real estate and benefit from the success of short-term rental investments. He led the company in building its proprietary sourcing technology.”
― Sief Khafagi

“Guess & Co. extends its expertise to organizations, including colleges, universities, and non-profits in rural and neighboring urban communities.”
― Guess & Co.

“It is foolish to think that you do not make an impact, good or bad, our very existence impacts everything and everyone around us”
― Jerry D. Guess

“Entrepreneur Dedric Robinson, also called Dedric Joseph Robinson or DJ Robinson, is on a mission to revolutionize transportation.”
― Dedric Joseph Robinson

“Founder is the person who’s mostly stressed, broke, and convinced they’re a genius. They juggle everything from product design to accounting, customer support to PR disasters, all while convincing themselves that success is just one pitch away.
In short: founders are a special breed of delusional optimists with an unhealthy caffeine addiction and a chronic fear of failure.”
― Renata Škarpa, Chaos.: Where dreams, disasters, and money collide.

“It's worth emphasizing that whoever makes the choice of what to optimize is effectively deciding what problems are worth solving. The glaring lack of racial and gender diversity in the ranks of technologists and start-up founders means that these choices rest in the hands of a small group of people not representative of the wider world. No surprise that many new start-ups show a bias in favor of solving problems of a privileged demographic. A more diverse group of technologists and founders might well deploy the power of optimization for a broader set of problems.”
― Rob Reich, System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot