The Richest Man In Babylon Quotes
"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read."
"Books hold a special power because they can take you anywhere you want to go."
"The old books are some of the most precious. They have stood the test of time because they share truths that are timeless."
"Wisdom I've absorbed from God, from grandma, and from those books. I’ve stirred it all up into a hillbilly gumbo, and I serve up that gumbo every day."
"Generous giving. It all sounds like a Dave Ramsey Top Ten list."
"If you did keep for yourself one-tenth of all you earn, how much would you have in ten years?"
"Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow."
"Enjoy life while you are here. Do not overstrain or try to save too much."
"Willpower is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment."
"That which one man knows can be taught to others."
"The First Cure: Start thy purse to fattening."
"For every ten coins thou placest within thy purse, take out for use but nine."
"That what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary."
"A man's wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse and keepeth it always bulging."
"To own his own domicile and to have it a place he is proud to care for, putteth confidence in a man’s heart and greater effort behind all his endeavors."
"No man can arrive at a full measure of success until he hath completely crushed the spirit of procrastination within him."
"In all of man's occupations there is opportunity to make a profit upon his efforts and his transactions."
"Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity."
"Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family."
"Gold laboreth diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field."
"Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling."
"Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those skilled in its keep."
"Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment."
"Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and to help us. Just as surely, our unwise acts follow us to plague and torment us."
"If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend’s burdens upon thyself."
"Debt is a pit of sorrow and regrets where the brightness of the sun is overcast and night is made unhappy by restless sleeping."
"Better a little caution than a great regret."
"He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation."
"If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth, even as water seeks its level? If a man has within him the soul of a free man, will he not become respected and honored in his own city in spite of his misfortune?"
"No man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts."
"Work well-done does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man."
"Decide what thou desirest to accomplish, and then work will aid thee to achieve it!"
"WHERE THE DETERMINATION IS, THE WAY CAN BE FOUND."