Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
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.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the...
There's something I would like to understand. And I don't think anyone can explain it. . . There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's lik...
I’m not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it’s not really pain.
I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-con...
Great men can’t be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.
Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.
Your ego is your strictest judge.
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
To cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind’s...
When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they calle...
Serenity comes from the ability to say Yes to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say No to the wrong choices made by others.
It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of...
Did you really think we want those laws observed? said Dr. Ferris. We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power an...