Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; 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
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 own fortune… — 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
“So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money,… — 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
Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is… — 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
“When I die, I hope to go to heaven-- whatever the hell that is-- and I want to be able to afford… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money… Let me… — 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
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases… — 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
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every… — 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
“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Now I don’t see anything evil in a desire to make money. But money is only a means to some end. If… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Anconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root… — 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
“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 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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