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:
“Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, “How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?” It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer—a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.”
—William Ayers, U.S. author. To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, ch. 7 (1993)
“A restaurant is a fantasy—a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.”
—Warner Leroy, U.S. restaurateur, founder of Maxwell’s Plum restaurant, New York City. New York Times (July 9, 1976)
“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)