Ayn Rand Quotes About Mistakes

• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Suffering, Businessman

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

• Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Respect, Mistake, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

• My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Principles, Patterns

  Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.295, Penguin

• 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.
  A bureaucrat, forces you to obey his decisions, whether you agree with him or not... If he makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; If he fails, He passes the loss on to you, in the form of heavier taxes.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Loss, Decision

• Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission. He does not hold it by permission - but by contract, that is, by a voluntary mutual agreement. A worker can quit his job; a slave cannot.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Mistake, Thinking

• The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Fighting, Individualism

  "Is Paul Ryan for or against Ayn Rand?" by Gary Weiss, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

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