Compound Interest Quotes

• Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

  Albert Einstein

  Money, Investing, World

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• The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Yourself, Being Real, I Love Myself

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• Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.

  Warren Buffett

  Song, Enemy, Sirens

  Source: time.com

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• My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

  Warren Buffett

  America, Lucky, Wealth

  "The Giving Pledge". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 28, 2010.

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• If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

  Robert Breault

  Philosophical, Interest, Compounds

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• Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Natural Wonders, World

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• Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."

  Brian Tracy

  Principles, Wealth, Rich

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• Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.

  Charlie Munger

  Heart, Soul, Understanding

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• Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Decisions We Make, Evil, Littles

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• Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

  Albert Einstein

  Bankers, Debt, Invention

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• Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. I don`t want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be  tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

  Richard Hamming

  Opportunity, Thinking, Two

  "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Evil, Increase, Interest

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

  John C. Bogle

  Enemy, Siren Song, Impulse

  John C. Bogle (2012). “The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation”, p.234, John Wiley & Sons

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• Compound interest is proof of gods existence.

  Jeff Rich

  Proof, Existence, Interest

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• I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.

  James Surowiecki

  Thinking, People, Levels

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

  Warren Buffett

  Pages, Interest, Working It

  "How To Use The Reading Habits of Billionaires To Radically Improve Your Intelligence and Success" by Elle Kaplan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2016.

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• Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Powerful, Pay The Price, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay.

  Michael Hudson

  Debt, Pay, Economy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

  Katy Lederer

  Way, Advantage, Should

  "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

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• The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Progress, Virtue, Interest

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4567, Delphi Classics

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• Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Debt, Usage, Payment

  RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1911). “THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR SELF-RELIANCE COMPENSATION”

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• Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.

  Paul Russo

  Karma, Blessing, Energy

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• The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

  C. S. Lewis

  Victory, Goes On, May

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Genius, Literature, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.123

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• What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Change, Moving Forward, Pay The Price

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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