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A person should always be the beneficiary of their own action and act in their rational self-interest
Drawn from what Ayn Rand said
What Ayn Rand actually said
- Ayn Rand Novelist and philosopher (1905 to 1982) who founded Objectivism
The Objectivist ethics holds that the actor must always be the beneficiary of his action and that man must act for his own rational self-interest.
Where this was said
↗The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet, 1964)archive.org
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