Notes and Quotes - The Richest Man in Babylon (George S. Clason)

Finished on 19/1/20 in Brisbane, Australia.

"A part of all you earn is yours to keep."

"The First Cure: Start thy purse to fattening.

The Second Cure: Control thy expenditure.

The Third Cure: Make thy gold multiply.

The Fourth Cure: Guard thy treasures from loss.

The Fifth Cure: Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment.

The Sixth Cure: Insure a future income.

The Seventh Cure: Increase thy ability to earn."

"Now I will tell thee an unusual truth about men and sons of men. It is this: That which each of us calls our ‘necessary expenses’ will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary."

"Men of action are favoured by the goddess of good luck."

"The Five Laws of Gold:

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.

Golf laboreth diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks in 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."