Ayn Rand

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Equality • Rights

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Growth • Improvement • Motivational

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Enlightenment • Knowledge • Truth

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

Knowledge • Motivational • Power

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

Love • Relationships • Sacrifice

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

Achievements • Consciousness • Happiness

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.

Force • Government • Rights

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Philosophy • Responsibility

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Government • History • Power

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

Growth • Happiness • Improvement

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Architecture • Human • Integrity

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

Growth • Money • Motivational

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

Achievements • Creativity • Motivational

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Business • Economics • Government

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Achievements • Death • Life

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Improvement • Learning • Motivational

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

Motivational • Success

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

Evil • Money • Philosophy

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Crime • Government • Laws

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Architecture • Business • Entrepreneurship