Mel Ange
"Dagny, there's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues. The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard. <...>
"I know it now. But . . . Francisco, why are you and I the only ones who seem to know it?"
"Why should you care about the others?" unquote
