Compounding Interest Quotes

If you're going to buy something which compounds for 30 years at 15% per annum and you pay one 35% tax at the very end, the way that works out is that after taxes, you keep 13.3% per annum. In contrast, if you bought the same investment, but had to pay taxes every year of 35% out of the 15% that you earned, then your return would be 15% minus 35% of 15%-or only 9.75% per year compounded. So the difference there is over 3.5%. And what 3.5% does to the numbers over long holding periods like 30 years is truly eye-opening.

I'm a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn't be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

If you're saving for the long run, it's actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time - decades, not months - the markets rise more than they fall.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

The time to save for the future is now. Thanks to compounding interest, the earlier you start putting money away for the future, the more you will save.

We don't worry over macro-economic factors when investing, as we are always thinking about the long-term.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

Don't focus on weekly or monthly returns.

A word or two I must trouble you with, concerning compound interest; for compound interest is discountenanced by the law. I suppose, as a sort of usury. That, without an express stipulation, the law never gives it.

Great work, professional relationships, and learning experiences compound over time, much the way money does - investing $100 today creates much more value than investing $100 a decade from now.

The key to making money is to stay invested.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Albert Einstein is reported to have said compounding is the eighth wonder of the world. Obviously, a dollar invested in your 20s is worth so much more than a dollar invested in your 60s.

Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charges are added to the debt every day, and the total amount owed grows over time.

Most people are playing the game of compounding interest, which is self interest - how do they take care of themselves and produce more for themselves, storing value for their own benefit. I play a different game. A game I call 'compounding impact.' How do you make a positive impact in the world?

Success produces success, just as money produces money.