“The ladder of success is best climbed..." Ayn Rand

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand.

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, Russian: Али́са Зино́вьевна Розенба́ум; February 2 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter.

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She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926.

She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead.