“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
Architecture
“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
MoneyAll Quotes by Ayn Rand
“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”
Power“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”
Death“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”
Love“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“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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
Best“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“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
Men“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
Happiness“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
Alone“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 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“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
Hope“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“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
Men“Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.”
Future“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“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“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