Ayn Rand

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

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."

"Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness."

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life."

"I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard."

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision."

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them."

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

"The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone."

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

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