A Familiar Philosophy

In reading through various blogs, I found a passage from a famous novel that seems very familiar.  Here is a character from that novel voicing his thoughts on labor and property:

"He didn't invent iron ore and blast furnaces, did he? He didn't invent smelting and chemistry and air compression. He couldn't have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal! Why does he think it's his? Why does he think it's his invention? Everybody uses the work of everybody else. Nobody ever invents anything."

Who said the above lines?  James Taggart, the villain in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.  I haven't yet read that book but I feel like I have heard something like this before...