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:
“The adjustment of qualities is so perfect between men and women, and each is so necessary to the other, that the idea of inferiority is absurd.”
—“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. 204 (August 1866)
“At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.”
—“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, pp. 24-5 (January 1870)
“The first man, who after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, this is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)