Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged Anniversary

[David Sandusky]

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) published Atlas Shrugged in 1957. That covers 50 years and counting the book has inspired entrepreneurs and other business leaders.

I read it my freshmen year in college based on numerous recommendations from those who noticed my entrepreneurial ways. I did not know how to read then so I am going on round two. A few hundred pages in right now, I share this from Atlas Shrugged, pg 140:

"No, I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not."
Rearden's startled glance at him was like the involuntary thrust of a hand grasping for support in a desperate need. The glance betrayed how much he wanted to find the sort of man he thought he was seeing.