Given their success, these businessmen must rely on the book as more of a personal narrative than for many of their business decisions. Because, for a novel that's at least partially about business, "Atlas Shrugged" offers some really bad business advice. There are good points, like the idea that successful businesses have to pick the best and most efficient partners over friends and that competition is usually a good thing, but there are lots of very bad ones.

We've picked out a few of the most famous quotes, passages, and ideas that could lead would-be devotees astray.