Very few people in history wrote 1000+ page books, sold 10 million+ copies, were loved as much as hated, and became more influential after dying
Ayn Rand is one of them
On Rand's 118th birthday
Discover the 3 signs your society is doomed, why loving money is NOBLE, and more👇🏻
Ayn Rand is one of them
On Rand's 118th birthday
Discover the 3 signs your society is doomed, why loving money is NOBLE, and more👇🏻
1/ Money is not evil but its opposite - a "token of honor"
The moochers take your labor "by tears"
The looters use "force"
But money embodies the noble idea that "the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods"
Money makes us human
The moochers take your labor "by tears"
The looters use "force"
But money embodies the noble idea that "the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods"
Money makes us human
2/ Ayn Rand wrote that you will know the real artist by his "love for truth"
The subjective, "art for art's sake" artists pretend to channel "higher mysteries" but their work comes out like "vomit out of a drunkard"
Real art takes effort, discipline, and "tension of mind"
The subjective, "art for art's sake" artists pretend to channel "higher mysteries" but their work comes out like "vomit out of a drunkard"
Real art takes effort, discipline, and "tension of mind"
3/ Ayn Rand on what money CAN'T do:
"Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent"
Money is a tool to realize your values and achieve your purpose
It will never tell you WHAT to value or which purpose to seek
"Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent"
Money is a tool to realize your values and achieve your purpose
It will never tell you WHAT to value or which purpose to seek
4/ Money earned via compromise is self-defeating: “Did you get your money by pandering to men’s vices or men’s stupidity? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment’s or a penny’s worth of joy"
5/ Ayn Rand's hero John Galt lists the three signs that mean your society is going downhill fast:
- Men who produce need "permission from men who produce nothing"
- Money flows to people dealing not in goods but "in favors"
- Men "get richer by graft and by pull than by work"
- Men who produce need "permission from men who produce nothing"
- Money flows to people dealing not in goods but "in favors"
- Men "get richer by graft and by pull than by work"
6/ Rand on what loving money means:
“To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you - a passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men”
Money makes possible an Exchange Of Excellence between voluntary peers
“To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you - a passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men”
Money makes possible an Exchange Of Excellence between voluntary peers
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