Quote of the Day: Ayn Rand

“A creative man is is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” -- Ayn Rand

American novelist, philosopher, screenwriter and playwright Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum in St. Petersburgh, Russia, where she achieved some success as a writer before coming to America in 1926. Her best known works, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, identified her as the founder of the philosophical movement called Objectivism.