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“The embodied soul is eternal in existence, indestructible, and infinite, only the material body is factually perishable, therefore fight O Arjuna.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us."
Roark: "But I don't think of you.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”
― Steve Jobs

“Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.”
― Steve Jobs

“Creativity is just connecting things.”
― Steve Jobs

“Think Different”
― Steve Jobs

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.”
― Steve Jobs

“Musk comes off much more like Thomas Edison than Howard Hughes. He’s an inventor, celebrity businessman, and industrialist able to take big ideas and turn them into big products.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“But I don't think of you.

(Howard Roark)”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?”
“Yes.”
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Never ask people about your work.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
― Steve Jobs

“Learn more and Know more.”
― Steve Jobs, To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios

“I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.”
― Steve Jobs

“A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”
― Ayn Rand

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“How do you always manage to decide?"
"How can you let others decide for you?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead