I am willing to bet all I have that Atlas wouldn't stand under any amount of money to compromise his moral preferences. He doesn't even claim to stand under any major law nor code but only his individual choice to prefer life. To me that is a man of true integrity. He respects people out of the inherit value they bring him which goes far deeper than intrinsic materials such as money.
He is not forced to act the way he is under insipid desires, a god or law: He chooses to love life.
Why are you referring to yourself in the third person? Is it because you want it to sound like someone else is complimenting you?