Ayn Rand
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.Collection: Responsibility
There’s nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.Collection: Work
I refuse to apologize for my ability – I refuse to apologize for my success – I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.Collection: Evil
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.Collection: About Money
Man’s basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.Collection: Evil
In that world, you’ll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.Collection: Adventure
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.Collection: Real
Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man’s first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.Collection: Firsts
I saw that evil was impotent – that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real – and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.Collection: Real