Founder (Fod.) or Founders may refer to:
- Entrepreneur, the starter of a private or public company
- Philanthropist, the starter of a charity
- Founding Fathers - see list of national founders
- Founder, a metallurgist who operates a foundry
- Founder, a hoof ailment caused by Laminitis
- Founder (IRC), management status for Internet Relay Chat
- Founders (Star Trek), a subrace of the fictional Changeling race
- To founder/foundering, a nautical term for a shipwreck (accident)
- The Founder, the student newspaper at Royal Holloway, University of London
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Famous quotes containing the word founder:
“In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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 (1844–1900)
“The creation of “strong-minded” women, so-called, is due to the individualism of men, to the modern selfish and speculative spirit which absorbs everything within itself and leaves women nothing but self-assertion for their protection and support.”
—“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, p. 44 (February 1870)