“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
Ayn Rand (unverified)
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.
“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)“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (unverified)“Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“If you have time don’t wait for time.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)