Link: http://aynrandlexicon.com

No one has ever proved her wrong.

I've read 'The Fountainhead' and 'The Virtue of Selfishness'. Ayn Rand was a very good writer. I think her writings are an excellent defence of individualism and self-empowerment and I can certainly appreciate why her writings are so popular and resonate with others. However, Objectivism doesn't really resonate with me personally and it isn't a philosophy that I can get on board with (I'm more of a Nietzsche / Lao Tzu kind of guy). With that being said, one thing I really like about Ayn Rand is that she is very quotable:

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see."

To each one's own. Ayn Rand had this to say about Neitzsche:

"Philosophically, Nietzsche is a mystic and an irrationalist. His metaphysics consists of a somewhat “Byronic” and mystically “malevolent” universe; his epistemology subordinates reason to “will,” or feeling or instinct or blood or innate virtues of character. But, as a poet, he projects at times (not consistently) a magnificent feeling for man’s greatness, expressed in emotional, not intellectual, terms."

"Nietzsche’s rebellion against altruism consisted of replacing the sacrifice of oneself to others by the sacrifice of others to oneself. He proclaimed that the ideal man is moved, not by reason, but by his “blood,” by his innate instincts, feelings and will to power—that he is predestined by birth to rule others and sacrifice them to himself, while they are predestined by birth to be his victims and slaves—that reason, logic, principles are futile and debilitating, that morality is useless, that the “superman” is “beyond good and evil,” that he is a “beast of prey” whose ultimate standard is nothing but his own whim. Thus Nietzsche’s rejection of the Witch Doctor consisted of elevating Attila into a moral ideal—which meant: a double surrender of morality to the Witch Doctor."