Quotes from Ayn Rand
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
— Ayn Rand
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
— Ayn Rand
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
— Ayn Rand
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
— Ayn Rand
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
— Ayn Rand
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
— Ayn Rand
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.
— Ayn Rand
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
— Ayn Rand
The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
— Ayn Rand
Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.
— Ayn Rand
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
— Ayn Rand
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
— Ayn Rand