“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”
Power
“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
“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
Men“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
Architecture“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“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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
Men“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Government“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
Alone“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
Men“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”
Money“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
Society“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“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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
Best“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”
Faith“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
Motivational“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
Men“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“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”
Death“Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.”
Future