Ayn Rand Quotes About Talent

• Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Stupid, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

• Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Independence, Principles

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.877, Penguin

• Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

  Ayn Rand

  Luck, Today, Talent

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.51, Penguin

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