"Compound interest on debt was the banker's..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.”

“Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.”

“Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purposehe knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it.But without deeper reflection one knows from daily lifethat one exists for other people.”

“Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.”

“People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.”

“It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”

“Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.”

“The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.”

“Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.”