Quotes by Ayn Rand

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

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.

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.

To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’