The Fountainhead

"I got sucked into reading this over-the-top manifesto of self-reliance during finals of my first year of college. By the end of the book, I decided to drop out of school. I never returned. It was the best decision of my life."

"By the end of the book, I decided to drop out of school. I never returned. It was the best decision of my life."

"It’s one of my favorite books."

"It’s one of my favorite books. It’s less of a political statement. It’s just personally one of my favorite books. I’m a fan of architecture."

"As a kid, I wanted to be an architect. That's before I read The Fountainhead. I mean it is hard to find a profession that pays worse than architecture."

"Healthy selfishness is a great thing."

"I'll pick it up when I need motivation."

"I know, it's a cult. I'm not going to take it too far, but I did enjoy it."

"Defiant in its pursuit of one’s artistic goals, meaning you don’t compromise; you stay truthful to what you’re exploring."

"The protagonist’s audacious self-confidence and refusal to compromise his artistic vision—which was to say, himself—was a fascinating thing to survey."

"Regarding economics, if you haven’t read [this author] lately, I suggest that you do."

"I think for me one of the core things that is very applicable to my life today is the virtue of independence - is the vision, you know, if you know the idea of Howard Roark who is the architect in The Fountainhead, who has a vision for what he wants to accomplish and, there's some time in the book when he is frustrated in his career because people don't want to build the type of buildings he wants to build. And he's given a choice, a difficult choice, to compromise his integrity or to essentially go out of business. And he has to go and take a job working in a quarry. And for me that model has a lot of resonance. When I think about what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work."

"On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile."

"I do love The Fountainhead."

"I would be Howard Roark and not Peter Keating in The Fountainhead."

"[This book] is good a difficult long read though..."