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5 Oscar-Type Awards For This College Basketball Season
5 Oscar-Type Awards For College Basketball
Oscar Night is reserved to celebrate some of the great performances, scripts and subplots in the movie world -- a celebration of the season in film.
College basketball and the movies have a lot in common. The businesses are great entertainment, both have great actors and there are plenty of compelling storylines with drama that changes every year.
Like the movies, there are surprises every season. Last year, Wichita State made it all the way to the Final Four. This year, the Shockers are not going to sneak up on anyone and no one will be surprised if they make it back. Last year, LaSalle made it all the way to the Sweet 16, and this year the Explorers can be classified as a surprise simply because they've underachieved despite having all but one significant player back from that team. Unless LaSalle wins its Atlantic 10 Tournament, the Explorers will not be making their way back to the NCAA Tournament, let alone the Sweet 16.
As far as Drama with a Capital D goes, who can forget past performances like John Chaney of Temple charging then-University of Massachusetts head coach John Calipari in a postgame press conference yelling "I'll kill you" after Calipari complained about the Owls getting calls from the officials? Or the Christian Laettner of Duke turn-and-shoot shot at the buzzer that won an Eastern Regional Final against Kentucky in Philadelphia?
There will be plenty of drama left in this season, but these are the five top awards for the regular season as it comes to a conclusion.
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5. Best (Bad) Actor in a Supporting Role
Texas Tech Super Fan Jeff Orr called Marcus Smart of Oklahoma State "a piece of crap" without knowing that Smart would actually almost punch him senseless if he could. Orr then disappeared voluntarily for the rest of the year.
4. Best Animated Feature
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim's veins bulging out of his neck arguing a charging call in the closing seconds of his team's game at Duke wins this one. The technical foul and subsequent ejection with 10 seconds left cost his team any chance of winning the game, but it was great theater.
3. Best Directing
It's a tough call, but head coach Gregg Marshall leading Wichita State to a 31-0 regular season gets the nod even though a strong case could be made for Villanova head coach Jay Wright leading his team to a 26-3 regular season. Marshall's team was a Final Four team last year and a lot of this was expected. Villanova came out of nowhere and probably will win the Big East regular-season title.
2. Best Visual Effects
This award goes to any time Duke is on television. Whether it's because people love the Blue Devils or hate them, three games involving Duke have been among the four highest-rated ESPN games of the season. According to ESPN.com, Duke vs. Syracuse on Feb. 1 averaged 4.9 million viewers. The second game between the teams on Feb. 14 was ranked No. 3 while the Duke vs. Kansas game way back in November was ranked No. 4. The only non-Duke game among the top four was Michigan State vs. Kentucky also in November, which earned the No. 2 spot.
1. Best Picture
The looks on the faces of the Boston College players after they upset No. 1 Syracuse on the road on Feb. 18, 62-59, in overtime has to win hands down. The enormity of the upset was simply this: BC came into the game with a 6-19 record; Syracuse was 25-0 and ranked No. 1. Adding to the drama was the fact that the Eagles played one day after attending the funeral for longtime basketball media contact Dick Kelley, who died after a long battle with ALS. BC players wore a "DK" patch on their uniforms in honor of Kelley. If you wrote this plot about a group of guys who could not jump and were slow afoot beating a team of high school All-Americans in their arena, it would be thrown into the trash as not being believable enough.
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1. The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason ™This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason The Richest Man in Babylon By George S. Clason Presented By MillionaireMindsetSecrets.com ™This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason Table of ContentsPUBLISHER'S PREFACE ...................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.ABOUT "THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON" BOOK ........................................................................ 4FOREWORD .................................................................................................................................................. 6AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF BABYLON ............................................................................................ 7THE MAN WHO DESIRED GOLD......................................................................................................... 11THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON ...................................................................................................... 15SEVEN CURES FOR A LEAN PURSE ................................................................................................... 22THE FIRST CURE - START THY PURSE TO FATTENING ............................................................. 25THE SECOND CURE - CONTROL THY EXPENDITURES .............................................................. 27THE THIRD CURE - MAKE THY GOLD MULTIPLY........................................................................ 29THE FOURTH CURE - GUARD THY TREASURES FROM LOSS.................................................. 31THE FIFTH CURE - MAKE OF THY DWELLING A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT ............ 32THE SIXTH CURE - INSURE A FUTURE INCOME .......................................................................... 33THE SEVENTH CURE - INCREASE THY ABILITY TO EARN ....................................................... 35MEET THE GODDESS OF GOOD LUCK.............................................................................................. 37THE FIVE LAWS OF GOLD..................................................................................................................... 50THE GOLD LENDER OF BABYLON ..................................................................................................... 55THE WALLS OF BABYLON .................................................................................................................... 64THE CAMEL TRADER OF BABYLON .................................................................................................. 67THE CLAY TABLETS FROM BABYLON.............................................................................................. 74THE LUCKIEST MAN IN BABYLON .................................................................................................... 78PUBLISHER'S CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................ 90STAY IN TOUCH ........................................................................................................................................ 92FREE GIFTS ................................................................................................................................................ 93 ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason About "The Richest Man in Babylon" BookThe original text of the Book "The Richest Man in Babylon" is now in public domain.You can freely share the book with other by directing them to:http://www.millionairemindsetsecrets.com/the-richest-man-in-babylon-ebook.htmlThis is the original and complete book written by George S. Clason which began in1926 as a series of informational pamphlets.The Richest Man in Babylon dispenses financial advice through a collection ofparables set in ancient Babylon. Through their experiences in business and managinghousehold finance, the characters in the parables learn simple lessons in financialwisdom.By basing these parables in ancient times, but involving situations that modern peoplecan understand and identify with, the author presents these lessons as timelesswisdom that is as relevant today as it was back then.George Samuel Clason was born in Louisiana, Missouri, on November 7, 1874. Heattended the University of Nebraska and served in the United States Army during theSpanish-American War. Beginning a long career in publishing, he founded the ClasonMap Company of Denver, Colorado, and published the first road atlas of the UnitedStates and Canada.In 1926, he issued the first of a famous series of pamphlets on thrift and financialsuccess, using parables set in ancient Babylon to make each of his points.These were distributed in large quantities by banks and insurance companies andbecame familiar to millions, the most famous being "The Richest Man in Babylon," theparable from which the present volume takes its title.These "Babylonian parables" have become a modern inspirational classic.Read it, digest it, and let it work its wisdom leading you to your success on the road toreal wealth creation! ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. ClasonAhead of you stretches your future like a road leading into the distance. Along thatroad are ambitions you wish to accomplish . . . desires you wish to gratify.To bring your ambitions and desires to fulfillment, you must be successful withmoney. Use the financial principles made clear in the pages which follow. Let themguide you away from the stringencies of a lean purse to that fuller, happier life a fullpurse makes possible.Like the law of gravity, they are universal and unchanging. May they prove for you, asthey have proven to so many others, a sure key to a fat purse, larger bank balances andgratifying financial progress. MONEY IS PLENTIFUL FOR THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND THE SIMPLE RULES OF ITS ACQUISITION 1. Start thy purse to fattening 2. Control thy expenditures 3. Make thy gold multiply 4. Guard thy treasures from loss 5. Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment 6. Insure a future income 7. Increase thy ability to earn ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason ForewordOur prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each ofus as individuals.This book deals with the personal successes of each of us. Success meansaccomplishments as the result of our own efforts and abilities. Proper preparation isthe key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking canbe no wiser than our understanding.This book of cures for lean purses has been termed a guide to financialunderstanding.That, indeed, is its purpose: to offer those who are ambitious for financial success aninsight which will aid them to acquire money, to keep money and to make theirsurpluses earn more money.In the pages which follow, we are taken back to Babylon, the cradle in which wasnurtured the basic principles of finance now recognized and used the world over.To new readers the author is happy to extend the wish that its pages may contain forthem the same inspiration for growing bank accounts, greater financial successes andthe solution of difficult personal financial problems so enthusiastically reported byreaders from coast to coast.To the business executives who have distributed these tales in such generousquantities to friends, relatives, employees and associates, the author takes thisopportunity to express his gratitude. No endorsement could be higher than that ofpractical men who appreciate its teachings because they, themselves, have worked upto important successes by applying the very principles it advocates.Babylon became the wealthiest city of the ancient world because its citizens were therichest people of their time. They appreciated the value of money. They practicedsound financial principles in acquiring money; keeping money and making theirmoney earn more money. They provided for themselves what we all desire…incomesfor the future.G. S. C. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason An Historical Sketch of BabylonIn the pages of history there lives no city more glamorous than Babylon. Its very nameconjures visions of wealth and splendor. Its treasures of gold and jewels were fabulous.One naturally pictures such a wealthy city as located in a suitable setting of tropicalluxury, surrounded by rich natural resources of forests, and mines. Such was not thecase. It was located beside the Euphrates River, in a flat, arid valley. It had no forests,no mines—not even stone for building. It was not even located upon a natural trade-route. The rainfall was insufficient to raise crops.Babylon is an outstanding example of man"s ability to achieve great objectives, usingwhatever means is at his disposal. All of the resources supporting this large city wereman-developed. All of its riches were man-made.Babylon possessed just two natural resources—a fertile soil and water in the river.With one of the greatest engineering accomplishments of this or any other day,Babylonian engineers diverted the waters from the river by means of dams andimmense irrigation canals. Far out across that arid valley went these canals to pour thelife giving waters over the fertile soil. This ranks among the first engineering featsknown to history. Such abundant crops as were the reward of this irrigation system theworld had never seen before.Fortunately, during its long existence, Babylon was ruled by successive lines of kingsto whom conquest and plunder were but incidental. While it engaged in many wars,most of these were local or defensive against ambitious conquerors from othercountries who coveted the fabulous treasures of Babylon. The outstanding rulers ofBabylon live in history because of their wisdom, enterprise and justice. Babylonproduced no strutting monarchs who sought to conquer the known world that allnations might pay homage to their egotism.As a city, Babylon exists no more. When those energizing human forces that built andmaintained the city for thousands of years were withdrawn, it soon became a desertedruin. The site of the city is in Asia about six hundred miles east of the Suez Canal, justnorth of the Persian Gulf. The latitude is about thirty degrees above the Equator,practically the same as that of Yuma, Arizona. It possessed a climate similar to that ofthis American city, hot and dry.Today, this valley of the Euphrates, once a populous irrigated farming district, is againa wind-swept arid waste. Scant grass and desert shrubs strive for existence against thewindblown sands. Gone are the fertile fields, the mammoth cities and the longcaravans of rich merchandise. Nomadic bands of Arabs, securing a scant living bytending small herds, are the only inhabitants. Such it has been since about thebeginning of the Christian era. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. ClasonDotting this valley are earthen hills. For centuries, they were considered by travelers tobe nothing else. The attention of archaeologists was finally attracted to them becauseof broken pieces of pottery and brick washed down by the occasional rain storms.Expeditions, financed by European and American museums, were sent here toexcavate and see what could be found. Picks and shovels soon proved these hills to beancient cities. City graves, they might well be called.Babylon was one of these. Over it for something like twenty centuries, the winds hadscattered the desert dust. Built originally of brick, all exposed walls had disintegratedand gone back to earth once more. Such is Babylon, the wealthy city, today. A heap ofdirt, so long abandoned that no living person even knew its name until it wasdiscovered by carefully removing the refuse of centuries from the streets and the fallenwreckage of its noble temples and palaces.Many scientists consider the civilization of Babylon and other cities in this valley to bethe oldest of which there is a definite record. Positive dates have been proved reachingback 8000 years. An interesting fact in this connection is the means used to determinethese dates. Uncovered in the ruins of Babylon were descriptions of an eclipse of thesun. Modern astronomers readily computed the time when such an eclipse, visible inBabylon, occurred and thus established a known relationship between their calendarand our own.In this way, we have proved that 8000 years ago, the Sumerites, who inhabitedBabylonia, were living in walled cities. One can only conjecture for how manycenturies previous such cities had existed. Their inhabitants were not mere barbariansliving within protecting walls. They were an educated and enlightened people. So far aswritten history goes, they were the first engineers, the first astronomers, the firstmathematicians, the first financiers and the first people to have a written language.Mention has already been made of the irrigation systems which transformed the aridvalley into an agricultural paradise. The remains of these canals can still be traced,although they are mostly filled with accumulated sand. Some of them were of such sizethat, when empty of water, a dozen horses could be ridden abreast along theirbottoms. In size they compare favorably with the largest canals in Colorado and Utah.In addition to irrigating the valley lands, Babylonian engineers completed anotherproject of similar magnitude. By means of an elaborate drainage system theyreclaimed an immense area of swamp land at the mouths of the Euphrates and TigrisRivers and put this also under cultivation.Herodotus, the Greek traveler and historian, visited Babylon while it was in its primeand has given us the only known description by an outsider. His writings give agraphic description of the city and some of the unusual customs of its people. Hementions the remarkable fertility of the soil and the bountiful harvest of wheat andbarley which they produced.The glory of Babylon has faded but its wisdom has been preserved for us. For this weare indebted to their form of records. In that distant day, the use of paper had not beeninvented. Instead, they laboriously engraved their writing upon tablets of moist clay. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. ClasonWhen completed, these were baked and became hard tile. In size, they were about sixby eight inches, and an inch in thickness.These clay tablets, as they are commonly called, were used much as we use modernforms of writing. Upon them were engraved legends, poetry, history, transcriptions ofroyal decrees, the laws of the land, titles to property, promissory notes and even letterswhich were dispatched by messengers to distant cities. From these clay tablets we arepermitted an insight into the intimate, personal affairs of the people. For example, onetablet, evidently from the records of a country storekeeper, relates that upon the givendate a certain named customer brought in a cow and exchanged it for seven sacks ofwheat, three being delivered at the time and the other four to await the customerspleasure.Safely buried in the wrecked cities, archaeologists have recovered entire libraries ofthese tablets, hundreds of thousands of them.One of the outstanding wonders of Babylon was the immense walls surrounding thecity. The ancients ranked them with the great pyramid of Egypt as belonging to the"seven wonders of the world." Queen Semiramis is credited with having erected thefirst walls during the early history of the city. Modern excavators have been unable tofind any trace of the original walls. Nor is their exact height known. From mentionmade by early writers, it is estimated they were about fifty to sixty feet high, faced onthe outer side with burnt brick and further protected by a deep moat of water.The later and more famous walls were started about six hundred years before the timeof Christ by King Nabopolassar. Upon such a gigantic scale did he plan the rebuilding;he did not live to see the work finished. This was left to his son, Nebuchadnezzar,whose name is familiar in Biblical history.The height and length of these later walls staggers belief. They are reported uponreliable authority to have been about one hundred and sixty feet high, the equivalentof the height of a modern fifteen story office building. The total length is estimated asbetween nine and eleven miles. So wide was the top that a six-horse chariot could bedriven around them. Of this tremendous structure, little now remains except portionsof the foundations and the moat. In addition to the ravages of the elements, the Arabscompleted the destruction by quarrying the brick for building purposes elsewhere.Against the walls of Babylon marched, in turn, the victorious armies of almost everyconqueror of that age of wars of conquest. A host of kings laid siege to Babylon, butalways in vain. Invading armies of that day were not to be considered lightly.Historians speak of such units as 10,000 horsemen, 25,000 chariots, 1200 regimentsof foot soldiers with 1000 men to the regiment. Often two or three years of preparationwould be required to assemble war materials and depots of food along the proposedline of march.The city of Babylon was organized much like a modern city. There were streets andshops. Peddlers offered their wares through residential districts. Priests officiated inmagnificent temples. Within the city was an inner enclosure for the royal palaces. Thewalls about this were said to have been higher than those about the city. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. ClasonThe Babylonians were skilled in the arts. These included sculpture, painting, weaving,gold working and the manufacture of metal weapons and agricultural implements.Their Jewelers created most artistic jewelry. Many samples have been recovered fromthe graves of its wealthy citizens and are now on exhibition in the leading museums ofthe world.At a very early period when the rest of the world was still hacking at trees with stone-headed axes, or hunting and fighting with flint-pointed spears and arrows, theBabylonians were using axes, spears and arrows with metal heads.The Babylonians were clever financiers and traders. So far as we know, they were theoriginal inventors of money as a means of exchange, of promissory notes and writtentitles to property.Babylon was never entered by hostile armies until about 540 years before the birth ofChrist. Even then the walls were not captured. The story of the fall of Babylon is mostunusual. Cyrus, one of the great conquerors of that period, intended to attack the cityand hoped to take its impregnable walls. Advisors of Nabonidus, the King of Babylon,persuaded him to go forth to meet Cyrus and give him battle without waiting for thecity to be besieged. In the succeeding defeat to the Babylonian army, it fled away fromthe city. Cyrus, thereupon, entered the open gates and took possession withoutresistance.Thereafter the power and prestige of the city gradually waned until, in the course of afew hundred years, it was eventually abandoned, deserted, left for the winds andstorms to level once again to that desert earth from which its grandeur had originallybeen built. Babylon had fallen, never to rise again, but to it civilization owes much.The eons of time have crumbled to dust the proud walls of its temples, but the wisdomof Babylon endures.Money is the medium by which earthly success is measured.Money makes possible the enjoyment of the best the earth affords.Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern itsacquisition.Money is governed today by the same laws which controlled it when prosperous menthronged the streets of Babylon, six thousand years ago. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason The Man Who Desired GoldBansir, the chariot builder of Babylon, was thoroughly discouraged. From his seatupon the low wall surrounding his property, he gazed sadly at his simple home and theopen workshop in which stood a partially completed chariot.His wife frequently appeared at the open door. Her furtive glances in his directionreminded him that the meal bag was almost empty and he should be at work finishingthe chariot, hammering and hewing, polishing and painting, stretching taut the leatherover the wheel rims, preparing it for delivery so he could collect from his wealthycustomer.Nevertheless, his fat, muscular body sat stolidly upon the wall. His slow mind wasstruggling patiently with a problem for which he could find no answer. The hot,tropical sun, so typical of this valley of the Euphrates, beat down upon himmercilessly. Beads of perspiration formed upon his brow and trickled down unnoticedto lose themselves in tie hairy jungle on his chest.Beyond his home towered the high terraced wall surrounding the kings palace.Nearby, cleaving the blue heavens was the painted tower of the Temple of Bel. In theshadow of such grandeur was his simple home and many others far less neat and wellcared for. Babylon was like this—a mixture of grandeur and squalor, of dazzling wealthand direst poverty, crowded together without plan or system within the protectingwalls of the city.Behind him, had he cared to turn and look, the noisy chariots of the rich jostled andcrowded aside the sandaled tradesmen as well as the barefooted beggars. Even the richwere forced to turn into the gutters to clear the way for the long lines of slave watercarriers, on the "Kings Business," 15each bearing a heavy goatskin of water to bepoured upon the hanging gardens.Bansir was too engrossed in his own problem to hear or heed the confused hubbub ofthe busy city. It was the unexpected twanging of the strings from a familiar lyre thataroused him from his reverie. He turned and looked into the sensitive, smiling face ofhis best friend—Kobbi, the musician."May the Gods bless thee with great liberality, my good friend," began Kobbi with anelaborate salute. "Yet, it does appear they have already been so generous thou needestnot to labor. I rejoice with thee in thy good fortune. More, I would even share it withthee. Pray, from thy purse which must be bulging else thou wouldst be busy in yourshop, extract but two humble shekels and lend them to me until after the noblemensfeast this night. Thou wilt not miss them ere they are returned.""If I did have two shekels," Bansir responded gloomily, "to no one could I lend them—not even to you, my best of friends; for they would be my fortune—my entire fortune.No one lends his entire fortune, not even to his best friend.""What," exclaimed Kobbi with genuine surprise, "Thou hast not one shekel in thypurse, yet sit like a statue upon a wall? Why not complete that chariot? How else canst ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clasonthou provide for thy noble appetite? "Tis not like thee, my friend. Where is thy endlessenergy? Doth something distress thee? Have the Gods brought to thee troubles?""A torment from the Gods it must be," Bansir agreed. "It began with a dream, asenseless dream, in which I thought I was a man of means. From my belt hung ahandsome purse, heavy with coins. There were shekels which I cast with carelessfreedom to the beggars; there were pieces of silver with which I did buy finery for mywife and whatever I did desire for myself; there were pieces of gold which made mefeel assured of the future and unafraid to spend the silver. A glorious feeling ofcontentment was within me! You would not have known me for thy hardworkingfriend. Nor wouldst have known my wife, so free from wrinkles was her face andshining with happiness. She was again the smiling maiden of our early married days.""A pleasant dream, indeed," commented Kobbi, "but why should such pleasantfeelings as it aroused turn thee into a glum statue upon the wall?""Why, indeed! Because when I awoke and remembered how empty was my purse, afeeling of rebellion swept over me. Let us talk it over together, for, as the sailors do say,we ride in the same boat, we two. As youngsters, we went together to the priests tolearn wisdom. As young men, we shared each others pleasures. As grown men, wehave always been close friends. We have been contented subjects of our kind. We havebeen satisfied to work long hours and spend our earnings freely. We have earned muchcoin in the years that have passed, yet to know the joys that come from wealth, wemust dream about them. Bah! Are we more than dumb sheep? We live in the richestcity in all the world. The travelers do say none equals it in wealth. About us is muchdisplay of wealth, but of it we ourselves have naught. After half a lifetime of hard labor,thou, my best of friends, hast an empty purse and sayest to me, "May I borrow such atrifle as two shekels until after the noblemens feast this night?" Then, what do I reply?Do I say, "Here is my purse; its contents will I gladly share? No, I admit that my purseis as empty as thine. What is the matter? Why cannot we acquire silver and gold—more than enough for food and robes?"Consider, also, our sons," Bansir continued, "are they not 17following in the footstepsof their fathers? Need they and their families and their sons and their sons familieslive all their lives in the midst of such treasurers of gold, and yet, like us, be content tobanquet upon sour goats milk and porridge?""Never, in all the years of our friendship, didst thou talk like this before, Bansir."Kobbi was puzzled."Never in all those years did I think like this before. From early dawn until darknessstopped me, I have labored to build the finest chariots any man could make, soft-heartedly hoping some day the Gods would recognize my worthy deeds and bestowupon me great prosperity. This they have never done. At last, I realize this they willnever do. Therefore, my heart is sad. I wish to be a man of means. I wish to own landsand cattle, to have fine robes and coins in my purse. I am willing to work for thesethings with all the strength in my back, with all the skill in my hands, with all thecunning in my mind, but I wish my labors to be fairly rewarded. What is the matter ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clasonwith us? Again I ask you! Why cannot we have our just share of the good things soplentiful for those who have the gold with which to buy them?""Would I knew an answer!" Kobbi replied. "No better than thou am I satisfied. Myearnings from my lyre are quickly gone. Often must I plan and scheme that my familybe not hungry. Also, within my breast is a deep longing for a lyre large enough that itmay truly sing the strains of music that do surge through my mind. With such aninstrument could I make music finer than even the king has heard before.""Such a lyre thou shouldst have. No man in all Babylon could make it sing moresweetly; could make it sing so sweetly, not only the king but the Gods themselveswould be delighted. But how mayest thou secure it while we both of us are as poor asthe kings slaves? Listen to the bell! Here they come." He pointed to the long column ofhalf naked, sweating water bearers plodding laboriously up the narrow street from theriver. Five abreast they marched, each bent under a heavy goatskin of water."A fine figure of a man, he who doth lead them." Kobbi indicated the wearer of the bellwho marched in front without a load. "A prominent man in his own country, tis easyto see.""There are many good figures in the line," Bansir agreed, "as good men as we. Tall,blond men from the north, laughing black men from the south, little brown men fromthe nearer countries. All marching together from the river to the gardens, back andforth, day after day, year after year. Naught of happiness to look forward to. Beds ofstraw upon which to sleep—hard grain porridge to eat. Pity the poor brutes, Kobbi!""Pity them I do. Yet, thou dost make me see how little better off are we, free menthough we call ourselves."That is truth, Kobbi, unpleasant thought though it be. We do not wish to go on yearafter year living slavish lives. Working, working, working! Getting nowhere.""Might we not find out how others acquire gold and do as they do?" Kobbi inquired."Perhaps there is some secret we might learn if we but sought from those who knew,"replied Bansir thoughtfully."This very day," suggested Kobbi, "I did pass our old friend, Arkad, riding in his goldenchariot. This I will say, he did not look over my humble head as many in his stationmight consider his right. Instead, he did wave his hand that all onlookers might seehim pay greetings and bestow his smile of friendship upon Kobbi, the musician.""He is claimed to be the richest man in all Babylon," Bansir mused."So rich the king is said to seek his golden aid in affairs of the treasury," Kobbi replied."So rich," Bansir interrupted, "I fear if I should meet him in the darkness of the night, Ishould lay my hands upon his fat wallet""Nonsense," reproved Kobbi, "a mans wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat pursequickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it. Arkad has an income thatconstantly keeps his purse full, no matter how liberally he spends.""Income, that is the thing," ejaculated Bansir. "I wish an income that will keep flowinginto my purse whether I sit upon the wall or travel to far lands. Arkad must know how ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clasona man can make an income for himself. Dost suppose it is something he could makeclear to a mind as slow as mine?""Methinks he did teach his knowledge to his son, Nomasir," Kobbi responded. "Did henot go to Nineveh and, so it is told at the inn, become, without aid from his father, oneof the richest men in that city?""Kobbi, thou bringest to me a rare thought." A new light gleamed in Bansirs eyes. "Itcosts nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend and Arkad was always that. Nevermind though our purses be as empty as the falcons nest of a year ago. Let that notdetain us. We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish tobecome men of means. Come, let us go to Arkad and ask how we, also, may acquireincomes for ourselves."Thou speakest with true inspiration, Bansir. Thou bringeth to my mind a newunderstanding. Thou makest me to realize the reason why we have never found anymeasure of wealth. We never sought it. Thou hast labored patiently to build thestaunchest chariots in Babylon. To that purpose was devoted your best endeavors.Therefore, at it thou didst succeed. I strove to become a skillful lyre player. And, at it Idid succeed."In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded. The Godswere content to let us continue thus. Now, at last, we see a light, bright like that fromthe rising sun. It biddeth us to learn more that we may prosper more. With a newunderstanding we shall find honorable ways to accomplish our desires.""Let us go to Arkad this very day," Bansir urged, "Also, let us ask other friends of ourboyhood days, who have fared no better than ourselves, to join us that they, too, mayshare in his wisdom.""Thou wert ever thus thoughtful of thy friends, Bansir. Therefore hast thou manyfriends. It shall be as thou sayest. We go this day and take them with us." ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason The Richest Man in BabylonIn old Babylon there once lived a certain very rich man named Arkad. Far and wide hewas famed for his great wealth. Also was be famed for his liberality. He was generousin his charities. He was generous with his family. He was liberal in his own expenses.But nevertheless each year his wealth increased more rapidly than he spent it.And there were certain friends of younger days who came to him and said: "You,Arkad, are more fortunate than we. You have become the richest man in all Babylonwhile we struggle for existence. You can wear the finest garments and you can enjoythe rarest foods, while we must be content if we can clothe our families in raiment thatis presentable and feed them as best we can."Yet, once we were equal. We studied under the same master. We played in the samegames. And in neither the studies nor the games did you outshine us. And in the yearssince, you have been no more an honorable citizen than we."Nor have you worked harder or more faithfully, insofar as we can judge. Why, then,should a fickle fate single you out to enjoy all the good things of life and ignore us whoare equally deserving?"Thereupon Arkad remonstrated with them, saying, "If you have not acquired morethan a bare existence in the years since we were youths, it is because you either havefailed to learn the laws that govern the building of wealth, or else you do not observethem."Fickle Fate is a vicious goddess who brings no permanent good to anyone. On thecontrary, she brings ruin to almost every man upon whom she showers unearned gold.She makes wanton spenders, who soon dissipate all 22they receive and are left besetby overwhelming appetites and desires they have not the ability to gratify. Yet otherswhom she favors become misers and hoard their wealth, fearing to spend what theyhave, knowing they do not possess the ability to replace it. They further are beset byfear of robbers and doom themselves to lives of emptiness and secret misery."Others there probably are, who can take unearned gold and add to it and continue tobe happy and contented citizens. But so few are they, I know of them but by hearsay.Think you of the men who have inherited sudden wealth, and see if these things arenot so." His friends admitted that of the men they knew who had inherited wealth thesewords were true, and they besought him to explain to them how he had becomepossessed of so much prosperity, so he continued: "In my youth I looked about me andsaw all the good things there were to bring happiness and contentment. And I realizedthat wealth increased the potency of all these. "Wealth is a power. With wealth manythings are possible."One may ornament the home with the richest of furnishings. "One may sail thedistant seas. "One may feast on the delicacies of far lands. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason"One may buy the ornaments of the gold worker and the stone polisher."One may even build mighty temples for the Gods."One may do all these things and many others in which there is delight for the sensesand gratification for the soul."And, when I realized all this, I decided to myself that I would claim my share of thegood things of life. I would not be one of those who stand afar off, enviously watchingothers enjoy. I would not be content to clothe myself in the cheapest raiment thatlooked respectable. I would not be satisfied with the lot of a poor man. On thecontrary, I would make myself a guest at this banquet of good things."Being, as you know, the son of a humble merchant, one of a large family with no hopeof an inheritance, and not being endowed, as you have so frankly said, with superiorpowers or wisdom, I decided that if I was to achieve what I desired, time and studywould be required."As for time, all men have it in abundance. You, each of you, have let slip by sufficienttime to have made yourselves wealthy. Yet, you admit; you have nothing to showexcept your good families, of which you can be justly proud."As for study, did not our wise teacher teach us that learning was of two kinds: the onekind being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training thattaught us how to find out what we did not know?"Therefore did I decide to find out how one might accumulate wealth, and when I hadfound out, to make this my task and do it well. For, is it not wise that we should enjoywhile we dwell in the brightness of the sunshine, for sorrows enough shall descendupon us when we depart for the darkness of the world of spirit?"I found employment as a scribe in the hall of records, and long hours each day Ilabored upon the clay tablets. Week after week, and month after month, I labored, yetfor my 24earnings I had naught to show. Food and clothing and penance to the gods,and other things of which I could remember not what, absorbed all my earnings. Butmy determination did not leave me."And one day Algamish, the money lender, came to the house of the city master andordered a copy of the Ninth Law, and he said to me, I must have this in two days, andif the task is done by that time, two coppers will I give to thee.""So I labored hard, but the law was long, and when Algamish returned the task wasunfinished. He was angry, and had I been his slave, he would have beaten me. Butknowing the city master would not permit him to injure me, I was unafraid, so I said tohim, Algamish, you are a very rich man. Tell me how I may also become rich, and allnight I will carve upon the clay, and when the sun rises it shall be completed."He smiled at me and replied, you are a forward knave, but we will call it a bargain. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason"All that night I carved, though my back pained and the smell of the wick made myhead ache until my eyes could hardly see. But when he returned at sunup, the tabletswere complete."Now, I said, tell me what you promised."You have fulfilled your part of our bargain, my son, he said to me kindly, and I amready to fulfill mine. I will tell you these things you wish to know because I ambecoming an old man, and an old tongue loves to wag. And when youth comes to agefor advice he receives the wisdom of years. But too often does youth think that ageknows only the wisdom of days that are gone, and therefore profits not. But rememberthis; the sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and willstill be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness." The thoughts of youth, he continued, are bright lights that shine forth like themeteors that oft make brilliant the sky, but the wisdom of age is like the fixed starsthat shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course."Mark you well my words, for if you do not you will fail to grasp the truth that I will tellyou, and you will think that your nights work has been in vain."Then he looked at me shrewdly from under his shaggy brows and said in a low,forceful tone, I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned wasmine to keep. And so will you."Then he continued to look at me with a glance that I could feel pierce me but said nomore."Is that all? I asked."That was sufficient to change the heart of a sheep herder into the heart of a moneylender, he replied."But all I earn is mine to keep, is it not? I demanded."Far from it, he replied. Do you not pay the garment-maker? Do you not pay thesandal-maker? Do you not pay for the things you eat? Can you live in Babylon withoutspending? What have you to show for your earnings of the past mouth? What for thepast year? Fool! You pay to everyone but yourself. Dullard, you labor for others. Aswell be a slave and work for what your master gives you to eat and wear. If you didkeep for yourself one-tenth of all 26you earn, how much would you have in ten years?"My knowledge of the numbers did not forsake me, and I answered, As much as I earnin one year."You speak but half the truth, he retorted. Every gold piece you save is a slave to workfor you. Every copper it earns is its child that also can earn for you. If you wouldbecome wealthy, then what you save must earn, and its children must earn, that allmay help to give to you the abundance you crave. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason"You think I cheat you for your long nights work, he continued, but I am paying you athousand times over if you have the intelligence to grasp the truth I offer you."A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matterhow little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do notbuy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you can pay out of therest and still have enough for food and charity and penance to the gods."Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed fromwhich your tree of wealth shall grow. The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shallthe tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistentsavings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath its shade."So saying, he took his tablets and went away."I thought much about what he had said to me, and it seemed reasonable. So I decidedthat I would try it. Each time I was paid I took one from each ten pieces of copper andhid it away. And strange as it may seem, I was no shorter of funds, than before. Inoticed little difference as I managed to get along without it. But often I was tempted,as my hoard began to grow, to spend it for some of the good things the merchantsdisplayed, brought by camels and ships from the land of the Phoenicians. But I wiselyrefrained."A twelfth month after Algamish had gone he again returned and said to me, Son,have you paid to yourself not less than one-tenth of all you have earned for the pastyear?"I answered proudly, Yes, master, I have. That is good, he answered beaming uponme, and what have you done with it?"I have given it to Azmur, the brick-maker, who told me he was traveling over the farseas and in Tyre he would buy for me the rare jewels of the Phoenicians. When hereturns we shall sell these at high prices and divide the earnings."Every fool must learn, he growled, but why trust the knowledge of a brick-makerabout jewels? Would you go to the bread-maker to inquire about the stars? No, by mytunic, you would go to the astrologer, if you had power to think. Your savings are gone,youth; you have jerked your wealth-tree up by the roots. But plant another. Try again.And next time if you would have advice about jewels, go to the jewel merchant. If youwould know the truth about sheep, go to the herdsman. Advice is one thing that isfreely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having. He who takesadvice about his savings from one who is inexperienced in such matters, shall pay withhis savings for proving the falsity of their opinions. Saying this, he went away."And it was as he said. For the Phoenicians are scoundrels and sold to Azmurworthless bits of glass that looked like 28gems. But as Algamish had bid me, I againsaved each tenth copper, for I now had formed the habit and it was no longer difficult. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason"Again, twelve months later, Algamish came to the room of the scribes and addressedme. What progress have you made since last I saw you?"I have paid myself faithfully, I replied, and my savings I have entrusted to Agger theshield-maker, to buy bronze, and each fourth month he does pay me the rental."That is good. And what do you do with the rental? " I do have a great feast withhoney and fine wine and spiced cake. Also I have bought me a scarlet tunic. And someday I shall buy me a young ass upon which to ride. "To which Algamish laughed, Youdo eat the children of your savings. Then how do you expect them to work for you?And how can they have children that will also work for you? First get thee an army ofgolden slaves and then many a rich banquet may you enjoy without regret. So sayinghe again went away. "Nor did I again see him for two years, when he once morereturned and his face was full of deep lines and his eyes drooped, for he was becominga very old man. And he said to me, "Arkad hast thou yet achieved the wealth thoudreamed of?"And I answered, Not yet all that I desire, but some I have and it earns more, and itsearnings earn more."And do you still take the advice of brick makers?"About brick making they give good advice, I retorted."Arkad, he continued, you have learned your lessons well. You first learned to liveupon less than you could earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who werecompetent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have learned tomake gold work for you."You have taught yourself how to acquire money, how to keep it, and how to use it.Therefore, you are competent for a responsible position. I am becoming an old man.My sons think only of spending and give no thought to earning. My interests are greatand I fear too much for me to look after. If you will go to Nippur and look after mylands there, I shall make you my partner and you shall share in my estate."So I went to Nippur and took charge of his holdings, which were large. And because Iwas full of ambition and because I had mastered the three laws of successfullyhandling wealth, I was enabled to increase greatly the value of his properties.So I prospered much, and when the spirit of Algamish departed for the sphere ofdarkness, I did share in his estate as he had arranged under the law." So spake Arkad,and when he had finished his tale, one of his friends said, "You were indeed fortunatethat Algamish made of you an heir.""Fortunate only in that I had the desire to prosper before I first met him. For fouryears did I not prove my definiteness of purpose by keeping one-tenth of all earned?Would you call a fisherman lucky who for years so studied the habits of the fish thatwith each changing wind he could cast his nets about them? Opportunity is a haughtygoddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared." ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason"You had strong will power to keep on after you lost your first years savings. You areunusual in that way," spoke up another."Will power!" retorted Arkad. "What nonsense. Do you think will power gives a manthe strength to lift a burden the camel cannot carry, or to draw a load the oxen cannotbudge? Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself tofulfillment. If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. Howelse shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? Should I say to myself,For a hundred days as I walk across the bridge into the city, I will pick from the road apebble and cast it into the stream, I would do it. If on the seventh day I passed bywithout remembering, I would not say to myself, Tomorrow I will cast two pebbleswhich will do as well. Instead, I would retrace my steps and cast the pebble. Nor onthe twentieth day would I say to myself, Arkad, this is useless. What does it avail youto cast a pebble every day? Throw in a handful and be done with it. No, I would notsay that nor do it. When I set a task for myself, I complete it. Therefore, I am carefulnot to start difficult and impractical tasks, because I love leisure."And then another friend spoke up and said, "If what you tell is true, and it does seemas you have said, reasonable, then being so simple, if all men did it, there would not beenough wealth to go around.""Wealth grows wherever men exert energy," Arkad replied. "If a rich man builds him anew palace, is the gold he pays out gone? No, the brick maker has part of it and thelaborer has part of it, and the artist has part of it. And everyone who labors upon thehouse has part of it Yet when the palace is completed, is it not worth all it cost? And isthe ground upon which it stands not worth more because it is there? And is the groundthat adjoins it not worth more because it is there? Wealth grows in magic ways. Noman can prophesy the limit of it. Have not the Phoenicians built great cities on barrencoasts with the wealth that comes from their ships of commerce on the seas?""What then do you advise us to do that we also may become rich?" asked still anotherof his friends. "The years have passed and we are no longer young men and we havenothing put by.""I advise that you take the wisdom of Algamish and say to yourselves, A part of all Iearn is mine to keep. Say it in the morning when you first arise. Say it at noon. Say itat night. Say it each hour of every day. Say it to yourself until the words stand out likeletters of fire across the sky."Impress yourself with the idea. Fill yourself with the thought. Then take whateverportion seems wise. Let it be not less than one-tenth and lay it by. Arrange your otherexpenditures to do this if necessary. But lay by that portion first. Soon you will realizewhat a rich feeling it is to own a treasure upon which you alone have claim. As it growsit will stimulate you. A new joy of life will thrill you. Greater efforts will come to you toearn more. For of your increased earnings, will not the same percentage be also yoursto keep?"Then learn to make your treasure work for you. Make it your slave. Make its childrenand its childrens children work for you. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason"Insure an income for thy future. Look thou at the aged and forget not that in the daysto come thou also will be numbered among them. Therefore invest thy treasure withgreatest caution that it be not lost. Usurious rates of return are deceitful sirens thatsing but to lure the unwary upon the rocks of loss and remorse."Provide also that thy family may not want should the Gods call thee to their realms.For such protection it is always possible to make provision with small payments atregular intervals. Therefore the provident man delays not in expectation of a large sumbecoming available for such a wise purpose."Counsel with wise men. Seek the advice of men whose daily work is handling money.Let them save you from such an error as I myself made in entrusting my money to thejudgment of Azmur, the brick-maker. A small return and a safe one is far moredesirable than risk."Enjoy life while you are here. Do not overstrain or try to save too much. If one-tenthof all you earn is as much as you can comfortably keep, be content to keep this portion.Live otherwise according to your income and let not yourself get niggardly and afraidto spend. Life is good and life is rich with things worthwhile and things to enjoy."His friends thanked him and went away. Some were silent because they had noimagination and could not understand. Some were sarcastic because they thought thatone so rich should divide with old friends not so fortunate. But some had in their eyesa new light. They realized that Algamish had come back each time to the room of thescribes because he was watching a man work his way out of darkness into light. Whenthat man had found the light, a place awaited him. No one could fill that place until hehad for himself worked out his own understanding, until he was ready for opportunity.These latter were the ones, who, in the following years, frequently revisited Arkad,who received them gladly. He counseled with them and gave them freely of his wisdomas men of broad experience are always glad to do. And he assisted them in so investingtheir savings that it would bring in a good interest with safety and would neither belost nor entangled in investments that paid no dividends.The turning point in these mens lives came upon that day when they realized the truththat had come from Algamish to Arkad and from Arkad to them. A PART OF ALL YOU EARN IS YOURS TO KEEP. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason Seven Cures for a Lean PurseThe glory of Babylon endures. Down through the ages its reputation comes to us as therichest of cities, its treasures as fabulous.Yet it was not always so. The riches of Babylon were the results of the wisdom of itspeople. They first had to learn how to become wealthy.When the Good King, Sargon, returned to Babylon after defeating his enemies, theElamites, he was confronted with a serious situation. The Royal Chancellor explainedit to the King thus:"After many years of great prosperity brought to our people because your majesty builtthe great irrigation canals and the mighty temples of the Gods, now that these worksare completed the people seem unable to support themselves."The laborers are without employment. The merchants have few customers. Thefarmers are unable to sell their produce. The people have not enough gold to buyfood.""But where has all the gold gone that we spent for these great improvements?"demanded the King."It has found its way, I fear," responded the Chancellor, "into the possession of a fewvery rich men of our city. It filtered through the fingers of most our people as quicklyas the goats milk goes through the strainer. Now that the stream of gold has ceased toflow, most of our people have nothing to for their earnings."The King was thoughtful for some time. Then he asked, "Why should so few men beable to acquire all the gold?""Because they know how," replied the Chancellor. "One may not condemn a man forsucceeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a manwhat he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.""But why," demanded the King, "should not all the people learn how to accumulategold and therefore become themselves rich and prosperous?"Quite possible, your Excellency. But who can teach them? Certainly not the priests,because they know naught of money making.""Who knows best in all our city how to become wealthy, Chancellor?" asked the King."Thy question answers itself, your majesty. Who has amassed the greatest wealth, inBabylon?""Well said, my able Chancellor. It is Arkad. He is richest man in Babylon. Bring himbefore me on the morrow."Upon the following day, as the King had decreed, Arkad appeared before him, straightand sprightly despite his three score years and ten. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason"Arkad," spoke the King, "is it true thou art the richest man in Babylon?""So it is reported, your majesty, and no man disputes it""How becamest thou so wealthy?""By taking advantage of opportunities available to all citizens of our good city.""Thou hadst nothing to start with?""Only a great desire for wealth. Besides this, nothing.""Arkad," continued the King, "our city is in a very unhappy state because a few menknow how to acquire wealth and therefore monopolize it, while the mass of ourcitizens lack the knowledge of how to keep any part of the gold they receive. "It is my desire that Babylon be the wealthiest city in the world. Therefore, it must be acity of many wealthy men. Therefore, we must teach all the people how to acquireriches. Tell me, Arkad, is there any secret to acquiring wealth? Can it be taught?""It is practical, your majesty. That which one man knows can be taught to others."The kings eyes glowed. "Arkad, thou speaketh the words I wish to hear. Wilt thou lendthyself to this great cause? Wilt thou teach thy knowledge to a school for teachers, eachof whom shall teach others until there are enough trained to teach these truths toevery worthy subject in my domain?"Arkad bowed and said, "I am thy humble servant to command. Whatever knowledge Ipossess will I gladly give for the betterment of my fellowmen and the glory of my King.Let your good chancellor arrange for me a class of one hundred men and I will teach tothem those seven cures which did fatten my purse, than which there was none leanerin all Babylon."A fortnight later, in compliance with the Kings command, the chosen hundredassembled in the great hall of the Temple of Learning, seated upon colorful rings in asemicircle. Arkad sat beside a small taboret upon which smoked a sacred lamp sendingforth a strange and pleasing odor."Behold the richest man in Babylon," whispered a student, nudging his neighbor asArkad arose. "He is but a man even as the rest of us.""As a dutiful subject of our great King," Arkad began, "I stand before you in his service.Because once I was a poor youth who did greatly desire gold, and because I foundknowledge that enabled me to acquire it, he asks that I impart unto you my knowledge."I started my fortune in the humblest way. I had no advantage not enjoyed as fully byyou and every citizen in Babylon. " ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. ClasonThe first storehouse of my treasure was a well-purse. I loathed its useless emptiness. Idesired it be round and full, clinking with the sound of gold. Therefore, I sought everyremedy for a lean purse. I found seven."To you, who are assembled before me, shall I explain the seven cures for a lean pursewhich I do recommend to all men who desire much gold. Each day for seven days will Iexplain to you one of the seven remedies."Listen attentively to the knowledge that I will impart. Debate it with me. Discuss itamong yourselves. Learn these lessons thoroughly, that ye may also plant in your ownpurse the seed of wealth. First must each of you start wisely to build a fortune of hisown. Then wilt thou be competent, and only then, to teach these truths to others."I shall teach to you in simple ways how to fatten your purses. This is the first stepleading to the temple of wealth, and no man may climb who cannot plant his feetfirmly upon the first step."We shall now consider the first cure." ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason THE FIRST CURE Start thy purse to fatteningArkad addressed a thoughtful man in the second row. "My good friend, at what craftworkest thou?""I," replied the man, "am a scribe and carve records upon the clay tablets." "Even atsuch labor did I myself earn my first coppers. Therefore, thou hast the sameopportunity to build a fortune."He spoke to a florid-faced man, farther back. "Pray tell also what dost thou to earn thybread?""I," responded this man, "am a meat butcher. I do buy the goats the farmers raise andkill them and sell the meat to the housewives and the hides to the sandal makers.""Because thou dost also labor and earn, thou hast every advantage to succeed that Idid possess."In this way did Arkad proceed to find out how each man labored to earn his living.When he had done questioning them, he said:"Now, my students, ye can see that there are many trades and labors at which menmay earn coins. Each of the ways of earning is a stream of gold from which the workerdoth divert by his labors a portion to his own purse. Therefore into the purse of each ofyou flows a stream of coins large or small according to his ability. Is it not so?"Thereupon they agreed that it was so. "Then," continued Arkad, "if each of youdesireth to build for himself a fortune, is it not wise to start by utilizing that source ofwealth which he already has established?"To this they agreed.Then Arkad turned to a humble man who had declared himself an egg merchant. "Ifthou select one of thy baskets and put into it each morning ten eggs and take out fromit each evening nine eggs, what will eventually happen?""It will become in time overflowing.""Why?""Because each day I put in one more egg than I take out."Arkad turned to the class with a smile. "Does any man here have a lean purse?"First they looked amused. Then they laughed. Lastly they waved their purses in jest."All right," he continued, "Now I shall tell thee the first remedy I learned to cure a leanpurse. Do exactly as I have suggested to the egg merchant. For every ten coins thouplacest within thy purse take out for use but nine. Thy purse will start to fatten at onceand its increasing weight will feel good in thy hand and bring satisfaction to thy soul. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason"Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple. I told thee Iwould tell how built my fortune. This was my beginning. I, too, carried a lean purseand cursed it because there was naught within to satisfy my desires. But when I beganto take out from my purse but nine parts of ten I put in, it began to fatten. So willthine."Now I will tell a strange truth, the reason for which I know not. When I ceased to payout more than nine-tenths of my earnings, I managed to get along just as well. I wasnot shorter than before. Also, ere long, did coins come to me more easily than before.Surely it is a law of the Gods that unto him who keepeth and spendeth not a certainpart of all his earnings, shall gold come more easily. Likewise, him whose purse isempty does gold avoid."Which desirest thou the most? Is it the gratification of thy desires of each day, a jewel,a bit of finery, better raiment, more food; things quickly gone and forgotten? Or is itsubstantial belongings, gold, lands, herds, merchandise, income-bringinginvestments? The coins thou takest from thy purse bring the first. The coins thouleavest within it will bring the latter."This, my students, was the first cure I did discover for my lean purse: For each tencoins I put in, to spend but nine. Debate this amongst yourselves. If any man proves ituntrue, tell me upon the morrow when we shall meet again." ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason THE SECOND CURE Control Thy Expenditures"Some of your members, my students, have asked me this: How can a man keep one-tenth of all he earns in his purse when all the coins he earns are not enough for hisnecessary expenses?" So did Arkad address his students upon the second day."Yesterday how many of thee carried lean purses?""All of us," answered the class."Yet, thou do not all earn the same. Some earn much more than others. Some havemuch larger families to support. Yet, all purses were equally lean. Now I will tell theean unusual truth about men and sons of men. It is this; That what each of us calls ournecessary expenses will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to thecontrary."Confuse not the necessary expenses with thy desires. Each of you, together with yourgood families, have more desires than your earnings can gratify. Therefore are thyearnings spent to gratify these desires insofar as they will go. Still thou retainest manyungratified desires."All men are burdened with more desires than they can gratify. Because of my wealththinkest thou I may gratify every desire? Tis a false idea. There are limits to my time.There are limits to my strength. There are limits to the distance I may travel. There arelimits to what I may eat. There are limits to the zest with which I may enjoy."I say to you that just as weeds grow in a field wherever the farmer leaves space fortheir roots, even so freely do desires grow in men whenever there is a possibility oftheir being gratified. Thy desires are a multitude and those that thou mayest gratifyare but few."Study thoughtfully thy accustomed habits of living. Herein may be most often foundcertain accepted expenses that may wisely be reduced or eliminated. Let thy motto beone hundred percent of appreciated value demanded for each coin spent."Therefore, engrave upon the clay each thing for which thou desireth to spend. Selectthose that are necessary and others that are possible through the expenditure of nine-tenths of thy income. Cross out the rest and consider them but a part of that greatmultitude of desires that must go unsatisfied and regret them not."Budget then thy necessary expenses. Touch not the one-tenth that is fattening thypurse. Let this be thy great desire that is being fulfilled. Keep working with thy budget,keep adjusting it to help thee. Make it thy first assistant in defending thy fatteningpurse." ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. ClasonHereupon one of the students, wearing a robe of red and gold, arose and said, "I am afree man. I believe that it is my right to enjoy the good things of life. Therefore do Irebel against the slavery of a budget which determines just how much I may spend andfor what. I feel it would take much pleasure from my life and make me little more thana pack-ass to carry a burden."To him Arkad replied, "Who, my friend, would determine thy budget?""I would make it for myself," responded the protesting one."In that case were a pack-ass to budget his burden would he include therein jewels andrugs and heavy bars of gold? Not so. He would include hay and grain and a bag ofwater for the desert trail."The purpose of a budget is to help thy purse to fatten. It is to assist thee to have thynecessities and, insofar as attainable, thy other desires. It is to enable thee to realizethy most cherished desires by defending them from thy casual wishes. Like a brightlight in a dark cave thy budget shows up the leaks from thy purse and enables thee tostop them and control thy expenditures for definite and gratifying purposes."This, then, is the second cure for a lean purse. Budget thy 43expenses that thoumayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments and to gratifythy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings." ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason THE THIRD CURE Make Thy Gold Multiply"Behold thy lean purse is fattening. Thou hast disciplined thyself to leave therein one-tenth of all thou earneth. Thou hast controlled thy expenditures to protect thy growingtreasure. Next, we will consider means to put thy treasure to labor and to increase.Gold in a purse is gratifying to own and satisfieth a miserly soul but earns nothing. Thegold we may retain from our earnings is but the start. The earnings it will make shallbuild our fortunes." So spoke Arkad upon the third day to his class."How therefore may we put our gold to work? My first investment was unfortunate, forI lost all. Its tale I will relate later. My first profitable investment was a loan I made toa man named Aggar, a shield maker. Once each year did he buy large shipments ofbronze brought from across the sea to use in his trade. Lacking sufficient capital to paythe merchants, he would borrow from those who had extra coins. He was an honorableman. His borrowing he would repay, together with a liberal rental, as he sold hisshields."Each time I loaned to him I loaned back also the rental he had paid to me. Thereforenot only did my capital increase, but its earnings likewise increased. Most gratifyingwas it to have these sums return to my purse."I tell you, my students, a mans wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it isthe income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse andkeepeth it always bulging. That is what every man desireth. That is what thou, eachone of thee desireth; an income that continueth to come whether thou work or travel."Great income I have acquired. So great that I am called a very rich man. My loans toAggar were my first training in profitable investment. Gaining wisdom from thisexperience, I extended my loans and investments as my capital increased. From a fewsources at first, from many sources later, flowed into my purse a golden stream ofwealth available for such wise uses as I should decide."Behold, from my humble earnings I had begotten a hoard of golden slaves, eachlaboring and earning more gold. As they labored for me, so their children also laboredand their childrens children until great was the income from their combined efforts."Gold increaseth rapidly when making reasonable earnings as thou wilt see from thefollowing: A farmer, when his first son was born, took ten pieces of silver to a moneylender and asked him to keep it on rental for his son until he became twenty years ofage. This the money lender did, and agreed the rental should be one-fourth of its valueeach four years. The farmer asked, because this sum he had set aside as belonging tohis son, that the rental be add to the principal. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason"When the boy had reached the age of twenty years, the farmer again went to themoney lender to inquire about the silver. The money lender explained that becausethis sum had been increased by compound interest, the original ten pieces of silver hadnow grown to thirty and one-half pieces."The farmer was well pleased and because the son did not need the coins, he left themwith the money lender. When the son became fifty years of age, the father meantimehaving passed to the other world, the money lender paid the son in settlement onehundred and sixty-seven pieces of silver."Thus in fifty years had the investment multiplied itself at rental almost seventeentimes."This, then, is the third cure for a lean purse: to put each coin to laboring that it mayreproduce its kind even as the flocks of the field and help bring to thee income, astream of wealth that shall flow constantly into thy purse." ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason THE FOURTH CURE Guard Thy Treasures from Loss"Misfortune loves a shining mark. Gold in a mans purse must be guarded withfirmness, else it be lost. Thus it is wise that we must first secure small amounts andlearn to protect them before the Gods entrust us with larger." So spoke Arkad upon thefourth day to his class."Every owner of gold is tempted by opportunities whereby it would seem that he couldmake large sums by its investment in most plausible projects. Often friends andrelatives are eagerly entering such investment and urge him to follow."The first sound principle of investment is security for thy principal. Is it wise to beintrigued by larger earnings when thy principal may be lost? I say not. The penalty ofrisk is probable loss. Study carefully, before parting with thy treasure, each assurancethat it may be safely reclaimed. Be not misled by thine own romantic desires to makewealth rapidly."Before thou loan it to any man assure thyself of his ability to repay and his reputationfor doing so, that thou mayest not unwittingly be making him a present of thy hard-earned treasure."Before thou entrust it as an investment in any field acquaint thyself with the dangerswhich may beset it."My own first investment was a tragedy to me at the time. The guarded savings of ayear I did entrust to a brick-maker, named Azmur, who was traveling over the far seasand in Tyre agreed to buy for me the rare jewels of the Phoenicians. These we wouldsell upon his return and divide the profits. The Phoenicians were scoundrels and soldhim bits of glass. My treasure was lost. Today, my training would show to me at oncethe folly of entrusting a brick-maker to buy jewels."Therefore, do I advise thee from the wisdom of my experiences: be not too confidentof thine own wisdom in entrusting thy treasures to the possible pitfalls of investments.Better by far to consult the wisdom of those experienced in handling money for profit.Such advice is freely given for the asking and may readily possess a value equal in goldto the sum thou considerest investing. In truth, such is its actual value if it save theefrom loss."This, then, is the fourth cure for a lean purse, and of great importance if it prevent thypurse from being emptied once it has become well filled. Guard thy treasure from lossby investing only where thy principal is safe, where it may be reclaimed if desirable,and where thou will not fail to collect a fair rental. Consult with wise men. Secure theadvice of those experienced in the profitable handling of gold. Let their wisdomprotect thy treasure from unsafe 47investments." ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason THE FIFTH CURE Make of Thy Dwelling a Profitable Investment"If a man setteth aside nine parts of his earnings upon which to live and enjoy life, andif any part of this nine parts he can turn into a profitable investment withoutdetriment to his wellbeing, then so much faster will his treasures grow." So spakeArkad to his class at their fifth lesson."All too many of our men of Babylon do raise their families in unseemly quarters. Theydo pay to exacting landlords liberal rentals for rooms where their wives have not a spotto raise the blooms that gladden a womans heart and their children have no place toplay their games except in the unclean alleys."No mans family can fully enjoy life unless they do have a plot of ground whereinchildren can play in the clean earth and where the wife may raise not only blossomsbut good rich herbs to feed her family."To a mans heart it brings gladness to eat the figs from his own trees and the grapes ofhis own vines. To own his own domicile and to have it a place he is proud to care for,putteth confidence in his heart and greater effort behind all his endeavors. Therefore,do I recommend that every man own the roof that sheltereth him and his."Nor is it beyond the ability of any well intentioned man to own his home. Hath notour great king so widely extended the walls of Babylon that within them much land isnow 48unused and may be purchased at sums most reasonable?"Also I say to you, my students, that the money lenders gladly consider the desires ofmen who seek homes and land for their families. Readily may thou borrow to pay thebrickmaker and the builder for such commendable purposes, if thou can show areasonable portion of the necessary sum which thou thyself hath provided for thepurpose."Then when the house be built, thou canst pay the money lender with the sameregularity as thou didst pay the landlord. Because each payment will reduce thyindebtedness to the money lender, a few years will satisfy his loan."Then will thy heart be glad because thou wilt own in thy own right a valuable propertyand thy only cost will be the kings taxes."Also wilt thy good wife go more often to the river to wash thy robes, that each timereturning she may bring a goatskin of water to pour upon the growing things."Thus come many blessings to the man who owneth his own house. And greatly will itreduce his cost of living, making available more of his earnings for pleasures and thegratification of his desires. This, then, is the fifth cure for a lean purse: Own thy ownhome" ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason THE SIXTH CURE Insure a Future Income"The life of every man proceedeth from his childhood to his old age. This is the path oflife and no man may deviate from it unless the Gods call him prematurely to the worldbeyond. Therefore do I say that it behooves a man to make preparation for a suitableincome in the days to come, when he is no longer young, and to make preparations forhis family should he be no longer with them to comfort and support them. This lessonshall instruct thee in providing a full purse when time has made thee less able tolearn." So Arkad addressed his class upon the sixth day."The man who, because of his understanding of the laws of wealth, acquireth agrowing surplus, should give thought to those future days. He should plan certaininvestments or provision that may endure safely for many years, yet will be availablewhen the time arrives which he has so wisely anticipated."There are diverse ways by which a man may provide with safety for his future. Hemay provide a hiding place and there bury a secret treasure. Yet, no matter with whatskill it be hidden, it may nevertheless become the loot of thieves. For this reason Irecommend not this plan."A man may buy houses or lands for this purpose. If wisely chosen as to theirusefulness and value in the future, they are permanent in their value and theirearnings or their sale will provide well for his purpose."A man may loan a small sum to the money lender and increase it at regular periods.The rental which the money lender adds to this will largely add to its increase. I doknow a sandal maker, named Ansan, who explained to me not long ago that each weekfor eight years he had deposited with his money lender two pieces of silver. The moneylender had but recently given him an accounting over which he greatly rejoiced. Thetotal of his small deposits with their rental at the customary rate of one-fourth theirvalue for each four years, had now become a thousand and forty pieces of silver."I did gladly encourage him further by demonstrating to him with my knowledge of thenumbers that in twelve years more, if he would keep his regular deposits of but twopieces of silver each week, the money lender would then owe him four thousand piecesof silver, a worthy competence for the rest of his life."Surely, when such a small payment made with regularity doth produce suchprofitable results, no man can afford not to insure a treasure for his old age and theprotection of his family, no matter how prosperous his business and his investmentsmay be."I would that I might say more about this. In my mind rests a belief that some daywise-thinking men will devise a plan to insure against death whereby many men pay inbut a trifling sum regularly, the aggregate making a handsome sum for the family of ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clasoneach member who passeth to the beyond. This do I see as something desirable andwhich I could highly recommend.But today it is not possible because it must reach beyond the life of any man or anypartnership to operate. It must be as stable as the Kings throne. Some day do I feelthat such a plan shall come to pass and be a great blessing to many men, because eventhe first small payment will make available a snug fortune for the family of a membershould he pass on."But because we live in our own day and not in the days which are to come, must wetake advantage of those means and ways of accomplishing our purposes. Therefore doI recommend to all men, that they, by wise and well thought out methods, do provideagainst a lean purse in their mature years. For a lean purse to a man no longer able toearn or to a family without its head is a sore tragedy. "This, then, is the sixth cure for alean purse. Provide in advance for the needs of thy growing age and the protection ofthy family." ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason THE SEVENTH CURE Increase Thy Ability to Earn"This day do I speak to thee, my students, of one of the most vital remedies for a leanpurse. Yet, I will talk not of gold but of yourselves, of the men beneath the robes ofmany colors who do sit before me. I will talk to you of those things within the mindsand lives of men which do work for or against their success." So did Arkad address hisclass upon the seventh day."Not long ago came to me a young man seeking to borrow. When I questioned him thecause of his necessity, he complained that his earnings were insufficient to pay hisexpenses. Thereupon I explained to him, this being the case, he was a poor customerfor the money lender, as he possessed no surplus earning capacity to repay the loan."What you need, young man, I told him, is to earn more coins. What dost thou toincrease thy capacity to earn?"All that I can do he replied. Six times within two moons have I approached mymaster to request my pay be increased, but without success. No man can go oftenerthan that."We may smile at his simplicity, yet he did possess one of the vital requirements toincrease his earnings. Within him was a strong desire to earn more, a proper andcommendable desire."Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.General desires are but weak longings. For a man to wish to be rich is of little purpose.For a man to desire five pieces of gold is a tangible desire which he can press tofulfillment. After he has backed his desire for five pieces of gold with strength ofpurpose to secure it, next he can find similar ways to obtain ten pieces and then twentypieces and later a thousand pieces and, behold, he has become wealthy. In learning tosecure his one definite small desire, he hath trained himself to secure a larger one.This is the process by which wealth is accumulated: first in small sums, then in largerones as a man learns and becomes more capable."Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they betoo many, too confusing, or beyond a mans training to accomplish. "As a man perfecteth himself in his calling even so doth his ability to earn increase. Inthose days when I was a humble scribe carving upon the clay for a few coppers eachday, I observed that other workers did more than I and were paid more. Therefore, didI determine that I would be exceeded by none. Nor did it take long for me to discoverthe reason for their greater success. More interest in my work, more concentrationupon my task, more persistence in my effort, and, behold, few men could carve moretablets in a day than I. With reasonable promptness my increased skill was rewarded,nor was it necessary for me to go six times to my master to request recognition. ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason"The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learnmore of his craft shall be richly rewarded. If he is an artisan, he may seek to learn themethods and the tools of those most skillful in the same line. If he laboreth at the lawor at healing, he may consult and exchange knowledge with others of his calling. If hebe a merchant, he may continually seek better goods that can be purchased at lowerprices."Always do the affairs of man change and improve because keen-minded men seekgreater skill that they may better serve those upon whose patronage they depend.Therefore, I urge all men to be in the front rank of progress and not to stand still, lestthey be left behind. "Many things come to make a mans life rich with gainfulexperiences. Such things as the following, a man must do if he respect himself:"He must pay his debts with all the promptness within his power, not purchasing thatfor which he is unable to pay."He must take care of his family that they may think and speak well of him."He must make a will of record that, in case the Gods call him, proper and honorabledivision of his property be accomplished."He must have compassion upon those who are injured and smitten by misfortune andaid them within reasonable limits. He must do deeds of thoughtfulness to those dearto him."Thus the seventh and last remedy for a lean purse is to cultivate thy own powers, tostudy and become wiser, to become more skillful, to so act as to respect thyself.Thereby shalt thou acquire confidence in thy self to achieve thy carefully considereddesires."These then are the seven cures for a lean purse, which, out of the experience of a longand successful life, I do urge for all men who desire wealth. "There is more gold inBabylon, my students,than thou 54dreamest of. There is abundance for all."Go thou forth and practice these truths that thou mayest prosper and grow wealthy,as is thy right."Go thou forth and teach these truths that every honorable subject of his majesty mayalso share liberally in the ample wealth of our beloved city." ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved
The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason Meet the Goddess of Good Luck"If a man be lucky, there is no foretelling the possible extent of his good fortune. Pitchhim into the Euphrates and like as not he will swim out with a pearl in his hand."—Babylonian Proverb.The desire to be lucky is universal. It was just as strong in the breasts of men fourthousand years ago in ancient Babylon as it is in the hearts of men today. We all hopeto be favored by the whimsical Goddess of Good Luck.Is there some way we can meet her and attract, not only her favorable attention, buther generous favors? Is there a way to attract good luck?That is just what the men of ancient Babylon wished to know. It is exactly what theydecided to find out. They were shrewd men and keen thinkers. That explains why theircity became the richest and most powerful city of their time.In that distant past, they had no schools or colleges. Nevertheless they had a center oflearning and a very practical one it was. Among the towered buildings in Babylon wasone that ranked in importance with the Palace of the King, the Hanging Gardens andthe temples of the Gods. You will find scant mention of it in the history books, morelikely no mention at all, yet it exerted a powerful influence upon the thought of thattime.This building was the Temple of Learning where the wisdom of the past wasexpounded by voluntary teachers and where subjects of popular interest werediscussed in open forums. Within its walls all men met as equals. The humblest ofslaves could dispute with impunity the opinions of a prince of the royal house.Among the many who frequented the Temple of Learning, was a wise rich man namedArkad, called the richest man in Babylon. He had his own special hall where almostany evening a large group of men, some old, some very young, but mostly middle-aged, gathered to discuss and argue interesting subjects. Suppose we listen in to seewhether they knew how to attract good luck.The sun had just set like a great red ball of fire shining through the haze of desert dustwhen Arkad strolled to his accustomed platform. Already full four score men wereawaiting his arrival, reclining on their small rugs spread upon the floor. More were stillarriving."What shall we discuss this night?" Arkad inquired.After a brief hesitation, a tall cloth weaver addressed him, arising as was the custom. "Ihave a subject I would like to hear discussed yet hesitate to offer lest it seem ridiculousto you, Arkad, and my good friends here."Upon being urged to offer it, both by Arkad and by calls from the others, he continued:"This day I have been lucky, for I have found a purse in which there are pieces of gold.To continue to be lucky is my great desire. Feeling that all men share with me this ™ This edition @ Millionaire Mindset Secrets.com 2010 All Rights Reserved