| Quote | Rand or Hubbard |
| To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is. | |
| Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race. | |
| There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. | |
| To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. | |
| Self-confidence is self-determinism. One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course. As long as one has that, he's got the universe in his pocket. | |
| Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself. | |
| The question isn't who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. | |
| There is only one security, and when you've lost that security, you've lost everything you've got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any | |
| Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. | |
| There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. | |
| There is only one security, and when you've lost that security, you've lost everything you've got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any | |
| Self-confidence is self-determinism. One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course. As long as one has that, he's got the universe in his pocket. | |
| Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself. | |
| A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment. | |
| Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself. | |
| Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race. | |
| Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free. | |
| Make money. Make more money. Make other people make money. | |
| The best way to know any future is to cause one. | |
| There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. | |
| Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. | |
| The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. | |
| Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. | |
| Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. | |
| Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. | |
| The question isn't who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. | |
| The most depraved type of human being is the man without a purpose. | |
| Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. | |
| There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. | |
| To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. | |