"Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions."
Successful people
From Sam Altman's blog, pre-OpenAI
Isn't that a mangled L Ron Hubbard quote?
Yes, although the veracity of the quote is uncertain; see here for discussion. This is the commonly-cited form that you'll find all over the Internet:
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, then the best way would be to start his own religion.~ Lafayette Ron Hubbard
IIRC, it wasn’t Hubbard who said this, but Ayn Rand, who, at a cocktail party, bet him that he couldn’t start a religion and make money from it.