Taylor Schilling credited as playing...
Dagny Taggart
- 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.