Ayn Rand Wealth Quotations

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.