A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it." An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

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.

Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he’s honest and he derives his self-respect from that, second-hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he’s great in the eyes of others.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.