And I have had some conversations with people that -- about things that I haven't talked about a lot in some years, and they were good for me, and I'm a betterman for it.
By celebrating the moral character and competitive accomplishments of entrepreneurs that earn their wealth by providing for the needs of their fellow man through free exchange, Rand lays out a dichotomy that shows why the "greater good" is better served by the selfishness of the latter than the altruism of the former.