Ayn Rand

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiated masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

Ayn Rand

A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Ayn Rand

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack.

Ayn Rand

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head.

Ayn Rand

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. Joy is not the ‘absence of pain.’

Ayn Rand

All work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Ayn Rand

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

Ayn Rand

An inventor is a man who asks ‘Why?’ of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

Ayn Rand

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Ayn Rand

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Ayn Rand