“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
Architecture
“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”
LoveAll Quotes by Ayn Rand
“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
Life“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”
Architecture“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
Alone“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.”
Men“Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.”
Future“When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.”
Learning“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
Men“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
Money“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”
Love“Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.”
Good“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”
Government“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
Happiness“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
Men“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”
Love“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”
Happiness“Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.”
Work“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Money“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
Motivational“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”
Faith