More quotes by Ayn Rand

"Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it."
"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."
"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."
"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."
"An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind."