“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep you soul-would you understand why that is much harder?” Howard Roark, The Fountainhead.

“Peter, before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done.” Howard Roark

“I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.” Howard Roark, The Fountainhead

“Howard! They didn’t do it on purpose.” Says Peter Keating. “That’s what makes it worse.”

Thinking of a master plan, there ain’t nothing but sweat inside my hand, so I dig into my pockets and my money spent, dig deeper, still coming up with lint. So I start my mission leave my residence thinking how can I get some dead presidents? I need money. I used to be a stick

“To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great? Such, however, is the whole moral atmosphere of our century-the century of the second-rated.” Gail Wynand, editorial writer, in the Fountainhead. He’s defending

You work hard to build a financial legacy for your family—but what about your intellectual legacy? Eric Jorgenson shares a powerful reminder that experience isn’t inherited. If you want your kids to truly benefit from your lessons, you have to leave more than money. You have to

“A blank check is always made out to the sum of everything you’ve got.” Gail’s inner torment at the realization that he, in this pivotal moment, does not run things.

Do I need anyone’s approval? Does it matter? Am I tied? Roark!

Capitalism, defined briefly by Howard Roark in his Courtlandt Case speech. The trader principle.

I feel the anguish in Gail’s words. The regret of what could have been, and should have been.

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” Ayn Rand

Property represents the stored value of time. When you destroy property, you fundamentally erase a human being’s time, never to be reclaimed. When you destroy property, you’re telling its owner(s), “I don’t give a f—k about you, and I don’t give a f—k about your finite time on

Plato is the Father of Thought control. It’s with the utmost respect for his ability to abstract and build systems, that I still say, F* you Plato. Nobles lies, Only philosophers get hot fries Totalitarian regimes For Philosopher Kings Gold silver and bronze are born From the

.EDDY V I know you got the mad skills, I saw the video. But sometimes I write a banger And I need that validation yo. So if you have time and want to rhyme, Don’t pass by Drop a few bars in the replies Like a Latina cutie who shakes with her fries Just don’t murder me kid I

“Dagny is myself, with any possible flaws eliminated. She is myself without my tiredness, without my chronic slightly anti-material feeling, without that which I consider the ivory tower element in me, or the theoretician versus the man of action…Dagny is myself without a moment

“Philosophy is primarily epistemology-the science of the means, the rules, and the methods of human knowledge. It is the base of all other sciences and the one necessary for man because man is a being of volitional consciousness-a being who has to discover, not only the contents

Just finished this book I found at the used book store. Has anyone else read the Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden? What did you think of it?