“If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn’t you make the most of it?”
Ayn Rand
This quote is commonly attributed to Ayn Rand, but I have not been able to locate a primary source. Use with caution in academic or professional contexts.
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“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 Primary source“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“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 Primary source“Grief too will make us idealists.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“I don’t know much about cryptocurrencies except to avoid them.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“You know I don’t love any one but you. You shouldn’t mind because some one else loved me.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source