“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
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“Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.”
GoodAll Quotes by Ayn Rand
“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”
Money“Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.”
Power“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
Men“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
Architecture“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
Hope“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
Money“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
Society“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”
Power“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 creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
Motivational“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“Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
Government“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”
Death“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
Happiness“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”
Love“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“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.”
Life“Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”
Business“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
Men