Ayn Rand

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness

The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.

The world you desire can be won. It exists... it is real... it is possible... it’s yours.

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

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

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

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

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

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

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

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

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.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

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