Quote Unquote: Ayn Rand

"I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle."

"Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them."

 "What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish."

"There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it."

"Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history."

"Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life." 

 "Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves-or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth." 

"I think. I am. I will." 

Ayn Rand