Why Businessmen Need Philosophy
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Novelist and philosopher Ayn rand, author of The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and many other fiction and non-fiction works, is the originator of the philosophy of Objectivism.  More than 20,000,000 copies of her books have been sold.  In 1991 in a joint s urvey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club, Atlas Shrugged ranked second (to the Bible) on a list of "books that made a difference" in peoples'lives.  In 1998 a documentary film "Ayn Rand:  A Sense of Life" was nominated for an Academ y Award, and in the Random House/Modern Library Readers Poll, all four of Ayn Rand's novels were voted in the top ten novels of the 20th Century.