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

Quote by Ayn Rand

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

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Letters of Ayn Rand

This book includes a selection of letters written by Ayn Rand, offering insights into her personal life, philosophical thoughts, and the development of her literary works. more

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American novelist and philosopher, known for her novels and philosophical ideas. Her works emphasize individualism, free markets, and rationalism, and have had a profound impact on politics and philosophy in the late 20th century. more

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Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.”

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Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.”

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Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.”

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Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.”

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Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.”

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Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.”

Feels May Mean Important Values Deals Circumstances Late Important Things Permanent Encounters Too Late Betray Fear Of The Future

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?”

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Book:Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

Source: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

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“The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.”

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Book:The collected works of Walter Bagehot

Source: The collected works of Walter Bagehot