THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON
The success secrets of the ancients - the most inspiring book on wealth ever written!
by GEORGE S CLASSON
New softcover book published 2004. 144 pages.
Beloved by millions, this timeless classic holds the key to all you desire and everything you wish to accomplish. This is the book that reveals the secret to personal wealth.
Countless readers have been helped by the famous Babylonian parables, hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. These fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. Acclaimed as a modern-day classic, this celebrated bestseller offers an understanding and solution your personal financial problems that will guide you through a lifetime. This is the book that holds the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money.
Contents include:
- Foreword
- The Man Who Desired Gold
- The Richest Man In Babylon
- Seven Cures For A Lean Purse
- Meet The Goddess Of Good Luck
- The Five Laws Of Gold
- The Gold Lender Of Babylon
- The Walls Of Babylon
- The Camel Trader Of Babylon
- The Clay Tablets From Babylon
- The Luckiest Man In Babylon
- An Historical Sketch Of Babylon
About the author
George Samuel Clason ( November 7, 1874 - April 7, 1957 ), also known as George S. Clason. George Samuel Clason was born in Louisiana, Missouri, and died in Napa, California.
During his eighty two years he was a soldier, businessman and writer. He served in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War.
Clason started two companies, the Clason Map Company of Denver Colorado and the Clason Publishing Company. The Clason Map Company was the first to publish a road atlas of the United States and Canada, and did not survive the Great Depression.
George Clason is best known for writing a series of informational pamphlets about being thrifty and how to achieve financial success. He started writing the pamphlets in 1926, using parables that were set in ancient Babylon. Banks and insurance companies began to distribute the parables and the most famous ones were complied into the book The Richest Man in Babylon
Clason was married twice, the first time to to Ida Ann Venable and the second to Anna Burt.