Quotes by Ayn Rand

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

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.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.