Hey thanks! I live very far from there India. Fortunately my room-mate has a copy of "The Fountainhead".

How did fountainhead helped you?

By providing a role model, and inspiration during looooong evenings when working on a startup. Some quotes ...

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"Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" "Yes." "My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?"

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"The creators were not selfless. It is the whole secret of their power--that it was self-sufficient, self-motivated, self-generated. A first cause, a fount of energy, a life force, a Prime Mover. The creater served nothing and no one. He had lived for himself. And only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind. Such is the nature of achievement."

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The lesson to take from the Fountainhead is to stop looking to other people for validation for your choices. Make the decision for yourself instead of simply doing hat others expect of you.

Peter(to Howard Roark): How do you you always decide? Howard Roark: How do you always let others decide for you?