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Ayn Rand
“There is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires—if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Jim Mattis
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
Jim Mattis

Jim Mattis
“The first is competence. Be brilliant in the basics. Don’t dabble in your job; you must master it. That applies at every level as you advance. Analyze yourself. Identify weaknesses and improve yourself. If you’re not running three miles in eighteen minutes, work out more; if you’re not a good listener, discipline yourself; if you’re not swift at calling in artillery fire, rehearse. Your troops are counting on you. Of course you’ll screw up sometimes; don’t dwell on that. The last perfect man on earth died on a cross long ago—just be honest and move on, smarter for what your mistake taught you.”
Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

Jim Mattis
“you can’t talk freely with the most junior members of your organization, then you’ve lost touch.”
Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

Ayn Rand
“You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection. You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I-I am the man who has granted you your wish.

John Galt's Speech”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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