“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
Ayn Rand (verified)
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z (Primary source)
The Ayn Rand Lexicon is a reference guide to the philosophy of Objectivism. Compiled from Ayn Rand’s extensive writings, it presents her views on hundreds of topics—from philosophy and politics to art and psychology—in an alphabetical, easy-to-browse format.
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“Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
Ayn Rand (verified)
“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense. An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Who will let you? That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“The proud hate pride—in others.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“If a man owns land, the land owns him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)