A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What I described last,” said Francisco, “is any man who proclaims his right to a single penny of another man’s effort.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It takes two to make every great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity… — 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 Image
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 Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
