Ayn Rand

Mediocrity doesn’t mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Ayn Rand

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

Ayn Rand

Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.

Ayn Rand

Money is the root of all good.

Ayn Rand

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man’s free will – only to those actions which are open to his choice.

Ayn Rand

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Ayn Rand

Never ask people about your work.

Ayn Rand

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

Ayn Rand

No one’s happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Ayn Rand

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper

Ayn Rand