Ayn Rand Quotes About Gold

• There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, People, Trying

  "Atlas Shrugged".

• Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Men, Political

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

• Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Gold, Doe

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.74, Penguin

• The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

  Ayn Rand

  Gold, Morality, Standards

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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