{"id":270,"date":"2012-02-09T12:45:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T12:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2012-02-09T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T12:45:48","slug":"ayn-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/02\/09\/ayn-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayn Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"

On money\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo you think that money is the root of all evil?\u201d said Francisco d\u2019Anconia, \u201cHave you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can\u2019t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who 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?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMoney will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values if he\u2019s evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he\u2019s evaded the choice of what to seek.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe man who damns money has obtained it dishonourably; the man who respects it has earned it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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