Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, February 2, 1905 (Ayn
Rand) was born in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg to a prosperous Jewish
family. Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and
screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead
and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called
Objectivism.
Ayn Rand Quotes
The truth is not for all men, but only for those
who seek it.
Ayn Rand
Creation comes before distribution -- or there
will be nothing to distribute.
Ayn Rand
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society
and you can predict its future.
Ayn Rand
Everyone has the right to make his own
decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
Ayn Rand
What greater wealth is there than to own your
life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand
still. It must grow or perish.
Ayn Rand
Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most
profound assertion of your own needs and values.
Ayn Rand
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing.
To depend on nothing.
Ayn Rand
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the
consequences of ignoring reality.
Ayn Rand
A creative man is motivated by the desire to
achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
There are two sides to every issue: one side is
right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand
An individualist is a man who recognizes the
inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.
Ayn Rand
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's
who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
Throughout the centuries there were men who took
first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get
scared, but to learn.
Ayn Rand
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to
achieve or to destroy.
Ayn Rand
A man's ego is the fountainhead of human
progress.
Ayn Rand
Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
Ayn Rand
It is a free market that makes monopolies
impossible.
Ayn Rand
The man who does not value himself, cannot value
anything or anyone.
Ayn Rand
Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in
freedom will create infinite possibilities.
Ayn Rand
Political freedom cannot exist without economic
freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
Ayn Rand
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the
capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose,
self-esteem.
Ayn Rand
A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.
Ayn Rand
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to
think.
Ayn Rand
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you
must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
Ayn Rand
So you think that money is the root of all evil.
Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand
We are born into this world unarmed - our mind
is our only weapon.
Ayn Rand
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to
suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and
reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
Ayn Rand
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever
you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Ayn Rand
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know
what you are doing and that's real power.
Ayn Rand
There's nothing of any importance in life -
except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,
will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. All the codes of
ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out
by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues. The code of competence is the only
system of morality that's on a gold standard.
Ayn Rand
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at
the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil,
because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control
of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.
Ayn Rand
