Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)

Taylor Schilling: Dagny Taggart

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• Dagny Taggart : I'm not interested in their opinion.

  James Taggart : Then whose do you go by?

  Dagny Taggart : My own.

• Henry Rearden : I'm curious... is it alright with you that I'm squeezing every penny of profit I can from your emergency?

  Dagny Taggart : I have to get the Rio Norte completely re-railed in nine months or Taggart Transcontinental will crash.

  Henry Rearden : They're doing their best to make it harder for you aren't they?

  Dagny Taggart : Yes, but it's useless to get angry with people like my brother and his friends in Washington. I don't have time for it. I have to undo what they've done.

  Henry Rearden : And after?

  Dagny Taggart : After, they won't matter anyway.

• James Taggart : Well that was quick!

  Dagny Taggart : You'd be surprised how quickly things get done when you do some actual work and don't rely on political favors.

• Dagny Taggart : It's a real mystery why the Twentieth Century Motor Company failed.

  Henry Rearden : It's no mystery. Bad ideas brought it down.

  Dagny Taggart : Ideas?

  Henry Rearden : As I understand it, the company flattened the wage scale and still paid everyone according to their needs, not according to their contributions.

  Dagny Taggart : Why all these stupid altruistic urges? It's not being charitable or fair. What is it with people today?

  Henry Rearden : so, after a short while, no surprise the smartest managers and the better workers left the company. The hundreds of remaining staff couldn't handle it alone.

  [bird wings flapping away] 

  Henry Rearden : Service dropped, quality in their once-great products was gone and that was that. The Twentieth Century Motor Company went under.

  Dagny Taggart : That's depressing.