Ayn Rand Quotes About Wealth

• Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Money, Powerful

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

• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Money, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1834, Penguin

• Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Rights, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.219, Penguin

• It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Novelists, Famous Women

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.27, Penguin

• Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Inspiration, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.314, Hamilton Books

• When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men will use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Winning, Men

• Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Hate, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.69, Penguin

• 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

• If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

  Ayn Rand

  Names, People, Firsts

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.38, Penguin

• Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Doe, Needs

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

• He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

  Ayn Rand

  Wish, Ignored, Affection

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.28, Hamilton Books

• America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private individuals for personal profit. And, instead of impoverishing the people, these skyscrapers, as they rose higher and higher, kept raising the people's standard of living - including the inhabitants of the slums.

  Ayn Rand

  America, Rose, People

• 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

• Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Mind, Wealth

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.181, Penguin

• Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Greed, Wealth

  Ayn Rand (1966). “Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal”, Signet Book

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