“The thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
Ayn Rand (verified)
Atlas Shrugged (Primary source)
In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand explores Objectivism, a philosophy of rational self-interest. The story follows a dystopian United States where successful innovators, led by John Galt, go on strike to protest excessive government regulation and taxation.
“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”
— 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)“Who will let you? That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Every thing impossible, until we see a success.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)