Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
¶ Atlas Shrugged (1957)
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Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-American writer
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
¶ Atlas Shrugged (1957)
So you think that money is the root of all evil? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?… Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor....Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love it's nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of t
¶ Atlas Shrugged (Francisco d'Anconia) (1957)
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
¶ The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1993)
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