Compound interest Quote by James Surowiecki

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

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

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

— Katy Lederer

I am all for trying to teach household finance in schools, starting as early as possible. And when it comes to high school, I…

— Richard Thaler

The problem is that you're creating a system of bubble finance where interest rates are so low that people can speculate. An asset value…

— David Stockman

The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!

— Albert Einstein

Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately…

— Benjamin Graham

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

— Ray Dalio

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic…

— Jerry A. Webman

“Investors need to understand not only the magic of compounding long-term returns, but the tyranny of compounding costs; costs that ultimately overwhelm that magic.”

— John C. Bogle

It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so…

— Warren Buffett