Ayn Rand Quotes

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I don't like following in people's footsteps; I like making my own trail.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I'm very big on doing my own thing.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

I always wanted to beat my own path.

We went and made our own scene and did our own thing.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Don't follow leaders.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

I just like doing things from my own head.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.