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Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.
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Variant: "Compound interest is man’s greatest invention."
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This Snopes article concluded that its status was uncertain, while this post from The Quote Investigator concludes it is most likely a false attribution, since variants of the quote date back to at least 1916, with the early variants not being attributed to Einstein.

 

Albert Einstein

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