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Ayn Rand Quotes about Money

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

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

Money, Rights, Liberty

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.219, Penguin

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.

Life, Money, Novelists

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1834, Penguin

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Inspirational, Money, Powerful

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

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

Money, Novelists, Famous Women

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.27, Penguin

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Money, Inspiration, Men

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.314, Hamilton Books

So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

Money, Men, Thinking

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.70, Penguin

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Funny, Inspiring, Money

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.315, Penguin

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Money, Stupid, Men

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? 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. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

Money, Men, Giving

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Funny, Inspiring, Money

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

Money, People, Trying

"Atlas Shrugged".

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.

Money, Mean, Men

Ayn Rand (1957). “ATLAS SHRUGGED”

You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?

Time, Money, Sorry

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.45, Penguin

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

Love, Money, Work

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.

Money, Evil, Apologizing

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.463, Penguin

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