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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Ayn Rand
Work, Mean, Reality
Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2260, Penguin

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

Ayn Rand
Work, Importance, Wells
Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.76, Hamilton Books

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

Ayn Rand
Business, Work, Way

All work is an act of philosophy.

Ayn Rand
Philosophy, Work
Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1853, Penguin

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

Ayn Rand
Work, Men, Self
Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.954, Penguin

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.

Ayn Rand
Work, Pride, Men
Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.23, Penguin

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

Ayn Rand
Life, Work, Mean
Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, 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.

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

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

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

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