• • Lululemon founder recipient of IDEA Award 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Egoism  | [Chip] Wilson [...] stepped down from his executive role with Lululemon on Jan. 29, 2012. Controversy arose over the printing of an Ayn Rand phrase on Lululemon bags in November of 2011 that read, “I am John Galt.” Galt is a character in Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, which Wilson read when he was 18 and claims had a big impact on him. The novel emphasizes self-interest and argues that placing others’ interest above one’s own leads to chaos.  

• • Get off your dumb lazy butt 
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Atlas Shrugged  | If you want to get anything out of life, the first thing you need to beat is your irrational fear. Now what makes up this fear? Is it this gravity that keeps us down? I have no idea. I really don’t. Maybe it’s the fear that other people will see us fail. Ayn Rand — she’s the lady that wrote Atlas Shrugged — was all about that; her whole deal was reminding people to ignore their critics. Even yourself.