Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
— Warren Buffett
Captivate Compound Interest quotations
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.
He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

Love is the most powerful force in the world.
The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.
Good and evil both increase at compound interest.
Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.

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

Compound interest is proof of gods existence.
My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.
As I holed up in the City of Angels, I was also aware of a comforting feeling of anonymity. In the world's biggest third-class city I could pass unnoticed. I spoke the language. I was familiar with the currency. I could drink the water. I could almost breathe the air, late April air, compounded of interesting hydrocarbons.

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

Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
Good and evil increase at compound interest.
That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.

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.
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.
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.

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.
In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest is going to get them excited? People enjoy fantasy, and that is just what mathematics can provide - a relief from daily life, an anodyne to the practical workaday world.
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."

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.
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.
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.
Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.