Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

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

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

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

You should feel free to feel how you want and don't think of what people think.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

We are the market, we know what we want.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.