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

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

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

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.