Ayn Rand quotes

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
- Ayn Rand

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.
- Ayn Rand

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
- Ayn Rand

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
- Ayn Rand

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
- Ayn Rand

Any alleged right of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another isn’t and can’t be a right.
- Ayn Rand

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
- Ayn Rand

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.An individualist is a man who says: I will not run anyone’s life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.
- Ayn Rand

An inventor is a man who asks Why? of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
- Ayn Rand

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in between.
- Ayn Rand

Freedom: To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
- Ayn Rand

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
- Ayn Rand

The truth is not for all men, but for those who seek it.
- Ayn Rand

I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
- Ayn Rand

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
- Ayn Rand

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
- Ayn Rand

The businessman’s tool is value.
- Ayn Rand

Love is the expression of one’s values.
- Ayn Rand

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.
- Ayn Rand

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.
- Ayn Rand

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Ayn Rand

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
- Ayn Rand

Pain is not be accepted as part of one’s soul and as a permanent scar across one’s view of existence.
- Ayn Rand

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
- Ayn Rand

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose.
- Ayn Rand