The Atlas Giant ...

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that
he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling,his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - what would
you tell him to do?


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So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? 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. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears,
or of the looters, who take it fro you by force. Money is made possible
only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?
- Francisco d'Anconia

I am. I think. I will."
- Anthem

"The ladder of success is
best climbed by stepping on
the rungs of opportunity."
- Ayn Rand

"Wealth is the product of
man's capacity to think."
- Francisco d'Anconia

"Money demands that you sell,
not your weakness to men's
stupidity, but your talent
to their reason."
- Francisco d'Anconia

"But I don't think of you."
- Howard Roark to
Ellsworth Toohey

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

"I don't wish to be a symbol of
anything. I'm only myself."
- Howard Roark

"Ask yourself whether the dream
of heaven and greatness should
be left waiting for us in our
graves - or whether it should be
ours here and now on this earth."
- Dr. Hugh Akston, Atlas Shrugged

"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."
- John Galt

"Great men can't be ruled."
- The Fountainhead, 1943