“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.”
Albert Einstein (unverified)
This quote is commonly attributed to Albert Einstein, but I have not been able to locate a primary source. Use with caution in academic or professional contexts.
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein (verified, secondary source)“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. One could say that it has affected us quantitatively, not qualitatively.”
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“Success is the most convincing talker in the world.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“The noblest question in the world is, what good may I do in it?”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)