Ayn Rand Quotes

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

Serenity comes from the ability to say Yes to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say No to the wrong choices made by others.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

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

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.

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.

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.

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

While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

No man can use his brain to think for another.