Ayn Rand quotes

Born
February 2, 1905, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire.

Died
March 6, 1982.

Occupation
Writer, philosopher.

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American writer, philosopher, and novelist. She is best known for her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which extol the virtues of individualism and laissez-faire capitalism.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
– Ayn Rand

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

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
– Ayn Rand

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

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

I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
– Ayn Rand

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
– Ayn Rand

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
– Ayn Rand

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
– Ayn Rand

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
– Ayn Rand

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
– Ayn Rand

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

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
– Ayn Rand

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

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
– Ayn Rand

To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’
– Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
– Ayn Rand

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
– Ayn Rand