1. “Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t, pays it.” ―Albert Einstein

  2. The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.” ―Charlie Munger


  3. The most important investment you can make is in yourself.” ―Warren Buffett


  4. Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.” ―James Clear


  5. People do not decide their futures. They decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” ―Matthias Alexander


  6. “Go to bed smarter than you when you woke up.” ―Charlie Munger


  7. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ―Jim Rohn


  8. “Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest.” ―Warren Buffett


  9. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ―Lao Tzu


  10. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.” ―Chinese Proverb


  11. “Health, wealth, and wisdom are like a three-legged stool.” ―Tim Ferriss (attributed to Ben Franklin)


  12. “Long-term thinking gets you long-term results. Compound interest applies everywhere: it applies in relationships, it applies in money, it applies in health and fitness.” ―Naval Ravikant


  13. Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” ―Bill Gates


  14. “If you’re born poor, it isn’t your mistake. But if you die poor, it is your mistake.” ―Bill Gates


  15. Show me how you spend your time and money, I’ll tell you what you value.” ―Ramit Sethi


  16. Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.” ―Jerzy Gregorek


  17. Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled: “This could change your life”.” ―Helen Exley


  18. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” ―Mark Twain


  19. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ―Aristotle


  20. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” ―Albert Einstein


  21. Writing is the antidote to confusion.” ―James Clear


  22. If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.” ―Greg Mckeown


  23. “What gets measured, gets managed.” ―Peter Drucker


  24. Sleep is your superpower.” ―Matthew Walker


  25. Take a simple idea and take it seriously.” ―Charlie Munger


  26.  “If more information was the answer, then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.” ―Derek Sivers


  27. “Spend extravagantly on the things you love, and cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t.” ―Ramit Sethi 


  28. “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.” ―Viktor Frankl


  29. “Health is not everything, but without health, everything is nothing.” ―Arthur Schopenhauer


  30. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” ―Leonardo Da Vinci


  31. “If you aren’t willing to work for it, don’t complain about not having it.” ―Toby McKeekan


  32. “A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.” ―Naval Ravikant


  33. “Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.” ―Naval Ravikant


  34. “Wealth buys your freedom.” ―Naval Ravikant


  35. “It’s not how much money you make. It’s how much money you keep.” ―Robert Kiyosaki


  36. “The poor and the middle-class work for money. The rich have money work for them.” ―Robert Kiyosaki


  37. “You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.” ―Robert Kiyosaki


  38. “An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.” ―Robert Kiyosaki


  39. “Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.” ―Tony Robbins


  40. “Money’s greatest intrinsic value—and this can’t be overstated—is its ability to give you control over your time.” ―Morgan Housel


  41. “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” ―Aristotle


  42. “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.” ―Charlie Munger


  43. “Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading.” ―Charlie Munger


  44. “Focus on inputs, outputs will fix themselves.” ―James Clear


  45. “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” ―Buddhist Proverb


  46. “A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic who is too busy to take care of his tools.” ―Spanish Proverb


  47. “You can’t get fit out of luck.” ―Tony Robbins


  48. “The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” ―Warren Buffett


  49. “Begin with the end in mind.” ―Stephen Covey


  50. “For the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.” ―Steve Jobs


  51. “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.” Charlie Munger


  52. “Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest.” Warren Buffett


  53. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” ―George R.R. Martin


  54. “Read what you love until you love to read.” ―Naval Ravikant


  55. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ―Jim Rohn


  56. “Successful people have libraries. The rest have big-screen TVs.” ―Jim Rohn


  57. “Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.” ―Naval Ravikant


  58. “We become the books we read.” ―Matthew Kelly


  59. “The difference between where you are today and where you’ll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you’ve read.” ―Jim Rohn


  60. “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.” ―Charlie Munger


  61. “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson


  62. “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” ―Gary Paulsen


  63. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” ―J.K Rowling


  64. “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” ―Atwood H. Townsend


  65. “It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.” ―Donna Tartt


  66. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” ―Frederick Douglass


  67. “Reading can teach you the best of what others already know. Reflection can teach you the best of what only you can know.” ―James Clear


  68. “Everybody can read what I read, it is a level playing field.” ―Warren Buffett


  69. “You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.” ―John Morley


  70. “Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.” ―Charlie Munger


  71. “I read books.” ―Elon Musk (when asked how he learned to build rockets).


  72. “As long as I have a book in my hand, I don’t feel like I’m wasting time.” ―Charlie Munger


  73. “It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.” ―Jim Rohn


  74. “All I have learned, I learned from books.” ―Abraham Lincoln


  75. “I think it helps to read broadly, what good does it do to know everything about one little thing if you don’t know how it fits into the world, and how the world is going to affect it.” Howard Marks


  76. “He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” ―William Godwin


  77. “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life.’” ―Helen Exley


  78. “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” ―Edmund Burke


  79. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” ―Harry Truman


  80. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” ―Joseph Addison


  81. “Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.” ―Jim Rohn


  82. “I just sit in my office and read all day.” ―Warren Buffett


  83. “Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.” ―Barack Obama


  84. “The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn’t matter.” ―Jim Rohn


  85. “I would continuously search for new ideas. I read every book and magazine I could. Heck, 3 bucks for a magazine, 20 bucks for a book. One good idea that led to a customer or solution and it paid for itself many times over.” ―Mark Cuban


  86. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” ―Jim Rohn


  87. “What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” ―Thomas Carlyle


  88. “Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it’s someone else’s vision, isn’t it?” ―Lemmy Kilmister


  89. “The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read.” ―Jim Rohn


  90. “If you read every day, you will eventually develop expertise.” ―Greg McKeown


  91. “Everything I read was public. Anyone could buy the same books and magazines. The same information was available to anyone who wanted it. Turns out most people didn’t want it. Most people won’t put in the time to get a knowledge advantage.” ―Mark Cuban


  92. “Books that don’t deliver timeless insights don’t stick around. Time filters out what works from what doesn’t. And there is no need to waste time on ones that don’t last.” ―Shane Parrish


  93. “The book you don’t read can’t help.” ―Jim Rohn


  94. “Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.” ―Jim Rohn


  95. “You’d be amazed at how much Warren reads – at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.” ―Charlie Munger


  96. “Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.” ―Neil Gaiman


  97. “Be curious. Read widely.   Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.” ―Aaron Swartz


  98. “Reading time is limited, it should be directed at the knowledge that lasts. The opportunity cost of reading something new is re-reading the best book you’ve ever read.” ―Shane Parrish


  99. “You almost have to read the stuff you’re reading, because you’re into it. You don’t need any other reason. There’s no mission here to accomplish. Just read because you enjoy it.” ―Naval Ravikant


  100. “I’ve not found one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: me investing in myself.” ―Patrick Bet-David


  101. “Reading a book is among the most high-leverage activities on earth.” ―Greg McKeown


  102. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ―Mark Twain


  103. “I often feel sorry for people who don’t read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.” ―Scott Corbett


  104. “Reading an hour a day is only 4% of your day. But that 4% will put you at the top of your field within 10 years. Find the time.” ―Patrick Bet-David


  105. “Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.” Bill Gates


  106. “Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.” ―Atwood H. Townsend


  107. “There are no shortcuts to mental fitness. Much like compound interest, reading has compounding benefits.” Christopher Begg


  108. “You can never be wise unless you love reading.” ―Samuel Johnson


  109. “You see, one of the best things about reading is that you’ll always have something to think about when you’re not reading.” ―James Patterson


  110. “When I was in my twenties and broke, I’d buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.” ―Gabrielle Zevin


  111. “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.” ―Christopher Morley


  112. “I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.” ―Barbara Kingsolver


  113. “There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere.” ―Lin Yutang


  114. “A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.” ―Stefanos Livos


  115. “We human beings build houses because we’re alive, but we write books because we’re mortal.” ―Daniel Pennac

  116. “Reading is an addiction that I adore.” ―Vianka Van Bokkem


  117. “A book can give you an experience of someone’s life in a few hours, and this is far more profitable than any sale that’s going on.” ―Neeraj Agnihotri


  118. “I can think of no better way to become more intelligent than sit down and read.” Warren Buffett


  119. “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.” ―Stephen King


  120. “The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author.” Tony Robbins


  121. “The reason that reading is so important, there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us, there’s no new problem you can have, with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything. There’s no problem you can have that someone hasn’t already solved and wrote about it in a book.” ―Will Smith


  122. “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” C. S. Lewis


  123. “The more you read, the better you’re going to become as a storyteller.” Stan Lee


  124. “Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.” ―Austin Kleon


  125. “An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.” ―Hervé Le Tellier


  126. “No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought that counts.” ―Bob Proctor


  127. “Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for a second; a book could scintillate forever.” ―Veronica Henry


  128. “The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read.” ―Charles Spurgeon


  129. “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” ―James Bryce


  130. “Read things you’re sure will disagree with your current thinking.” ―Joel Salatin


  131. “Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing! Words keep introducing their friends to you.” ―Toba Beta


  132. “It doesn’t make sense to read something unless you can absorb the information and apply it to your daily life.” ―Jim Kwik


  133. “You are what you eat and read.” ―Maya Corrigan


  134. “It’s just God’s gift. If you’re into self-education, there’s nothing like reading. Of course, people do a lot of it have an enormous advantage.” ―Charlie Munger


  135. “Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it.” ―Israel Wayne


  136. “There is no problem that a library card can’t solve.” Eleanor Brown


  137. “Books train your mind to imagination to think big.” Taylor Swift


  138. “Some men think more than they read. Others read more than they think. Those who practice both, grow wise. Those who follow neither, remain ignorant.” ―John Leland


  139. “Ever since I discovered how reading stimulates the mind’s imagination, I have never stopped reading” ―James Hauenstein


  140. “There is no limit to what you can read.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita


  141. “In the morning, nurture your mind with good books. At night, write yours.” ―Michael Bassey Johnson


  142. “Read. Dream. Repeat.” ―Richelle E. Goodrich


  143. “There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own.” Albert Einstein


  144. “Reading one page of a book and implementing is much better than reading the book to completion and doing nothing. Books are meant to be used.” ―Mac Duke


  145. “Fools read fast. Geniuses reread.” ―Maxime Lagacé


  146. Reading really is one of the best remedies for stupidity.” ―Jon Etter


  147. “If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you.” ―Jim Mattis


  148. “I absolutely look at people’s bookshelves. And I have some judgment. I mean, they’re openly showing you themselves.” Andrew Sean Greer


  149. “A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. ” Will Rogers


  150. “Read a lot of books. History is shaped by those who read.” ―Abdul Malik Omar


  151. “Discipline Equals Freedom.”Jocko Willink

  152. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin

  153. Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money.” Morgan Housel

  154. “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” David Allen

  155. “Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.” Gautama Buddha

  156. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” Reid Hoffman

  157. “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” John Dryden

  158. “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.” Mahatma Gandhi

  159. “Don’t work 8 hours for a company and then go home & not work on your own goals. You’re not tired. You’re uninspired.” Dwayne Johnson

  160. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” Steve Jobs

  161. “Every professional was once an amateur.” Alexander Pope

  162. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Blaise Pascal

  163. “All self-help boils down to “choose long-term over short-term”.” Naval Ravikant

  164. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” Epictetus

  165. “What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” Gautama Buddha

  166. “I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

  167. “The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.” Jack Bogle

  168. “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” Picasso