Founder's Vision Quotes

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.

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.

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, 'Hey, other people might want this.'

It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

I do think that our democracy is so great, we can withstand even a candidacy of Donald Trump. And when we emerge from this, it has to be respecting the position of those who supported him, addressing the anger and anxiety that they have, and, again, bringing the country together, which was always the purpose of our founders, a more perfect union.

This is Steve's company. This is still Steve's company. It was born that way; it's still that way. And so his spirit, I think, will always be the DNA of this company.