Quotes About Compound Interest

#1. Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.

Benjamin Graham

#2. Compound interest is proof of gods existence.

Jeff Rich

#3. 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

#4. Failure or success do not happen by accident, they are the compound interest of action or inaction.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

Warren Buffett

#6. Books increase by rule of compound interest: one interest leads to another interest, and this compounds into third.

Tom Rachman

#7. It's like compound interest with a turbocharger.

Gary Keller

#8. 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

#9. Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing.

Aldo Leopold

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

Albert Einstein

#11. Payday loans: "If you were the sort of person who was ever going to understand compound interest, you wouldn't be in this mess. We can literally put off the shitstorm until next week. I mean, next week! It'll probably never happen!

David Mitchell

#12. 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

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

Albert Einstein

#14. 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

#15. And again, damn. Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who do seem to get. Some spiritual form of compound interest, I suppose.

Roger Zelazny

#16. If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

Robert Breault

#17. The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.

Albert Einstein

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

Katy Lederer

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

Warren Buffett

#20. Deposit thoughts of prosperity, wealth, and success in your subconscious mind, and the latter will give you compound interest.

Joseph Murphy

#21. In fact, when Warren Buffett was once asked about the key to success, he pointed to a stack of nearby books and said, "Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.

Warren Buffett

#22. The smallest, earliest gifts forever alter your trajectory for doing good. This is what I mean by the compound interest of altruism. Start early to maximize the compound interest in your efforts.

Biz Stone

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.

Rudyard Kipling

#26. The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

#28. Books," he said, "are like mushrooms. They grow when you are not looking. Books increase by rule of compound interest: one interest leads to another interest, and this compounds into third. Next, you have so much interest there is no space in closet.

Tom Rachman

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

C.S. Lewis

#30. 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

#31. In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

Charlie Munger

#32. BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE ... UNLESS YOU'RE IMMORTAL AND UNDERSTAND COMPOUND INTEREST

Chloe Neill

#33. Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

Charles Caleb Colton

#34. The Fates seldom forget the bargains made with them, or fail to ask for compound interest.

Edith Wharton

#35. If you project all source of hatred and jealousy, they will rebound on you with compound interest.

Indian

#36. Good and evil are not static; they are dynamic. Each one continually feeds on itself just like compound interest in the bank. Good is always getting better, and evil is always getting worse.

C.S. Lewis

#37. The only thing that compounds faster than interest is learning.

Orrin Woodward

#38. Had stood there silently, watching, without interest or purpose, like a chemical compound on a photographic plate, absorbing visual shapes because they were there to be absorbed, but unable ever to form any estimate of the objects of her vision.

Ayn Rand

#39. I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

Lois Lowry

#40. Money Compounding is one concept that does not hit you unless your stars are aligned

Manoj Arora

#41. If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be really too weak to consider at all and the human interest would be entirely lost.

Howard Pyle