He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words ‘to make money’ hold the essence of human… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Into what bottomless, future-less sewer of the unpaid-for? Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth - the man who would make his own fortune… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth—the man who would make his own fortune no matter… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I don't give a damn about your brother James and his friends. Their theory was not new, it has worked for centuries.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money—and I have no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose--because it contains all the distinctions of the others--the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Throughout men’s history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What's he so damn arrogant about? Just because he made that fortune himself? Does he have to be such a damn snob… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
