Ayn Rand

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.

Ayn Rand

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

Ayn Rand

To know one’s own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

Ayn Rand

We are born into this world unarmed – our mind is our only weapon.

Ayn Rand

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.

Ayn Rand

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man’s nature and of life’s potential.

Ayn Rand

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.

Ayn Rand

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.

Ayn Rand

Your soul has a single basic function – the act of valuing.

Ayn Rand

A ‘mixed economy’ is a society in the process of committing suicide.

Ayn Rand