I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.