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

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

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

Motivational, Others

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Happiness, Life, Pain

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

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

Success, Best, Ladder

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Government, History, Free

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Evil, Wrong, Sides

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Money, Evil, Root

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

Greatness, Waiting, Dream

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Wrong, Check, Exist

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Architecture, Order, Build

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

Money, Wish, Driver

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Wealth, Product, Capacity

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Goal, Achieving, Action

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Money, Men, Talent

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Happiness, Values, Proceeds

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

Wheel, Attribute, Skyscraper

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

Men, Vision, Roads

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Sacrifice, Service, Master

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Guilt, Accept, Worst

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Reality, Thinking, Error

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

Gun, Morality, Force

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Life, Love, Ask

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Freedom, Men, Society

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Power, Men, Government

Biography

Nationality: Russian Quotes

Type: Writer

Born: February 2, 1905

Died: March 6, 1982

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