You can become rich only when you become expert in financial related things. In such a situation, if you also want to become an expert in financial related matters, then you must read the book The Richest Man in Babylon by author George S. Clason. Inside the book, the author has given excellent financial tips to become rich, by adopting which you can become rich.
It is noteworthy that to explain the ideas of becoming rich in a very simple and easy way, the author has given reference to Babylonian stories so that it is easy for people to understand.
So I suggest you read the book The Richest Man in Babylon. Today, I have given the motivational and famous quotes from this book in today’s blog. I hope you will like them very much and you will adopt them in your life.
The Richest Man in Babylon: Quotes
“It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.”
“If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend’s burdens upon thyself.”
“Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.”
“The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one’s mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.”
“Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.”
The Richest Man in Babylon: Quotes
“Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?”
“The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and
will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.”
“As for time, all men have it in abundance.”
“The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.”
The Richest Man in Babylon: Quotes
“Where the determination is, the way can be found.”
“Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.”
“A part of all I earn is mine to keep.’ Say it in the morning when you first arise. Say it at noon. Say it at night. Say it each hour of every day. Say it to yourself until the words stand out like letters of fire across the sky.”
“In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.”
“When no buyers were near, he talked to me earnestly to impress upon me how valuable work would be to me in the future: ‘Some men hate it. They make it their enemy. Better to treat it like a friend, make thyself like it. Don’t mind because it is hard. If thou thinkest about what a good house thou build, then who cares if the beams are heavy and it is far from the well to carry the water for the plaster. Promise me, boy, if thou get a master, work for him as hard as thou canst. If he does not appreciate all thou do, never mind. Remember, work, well-done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.”
“A PART OF ALL YOU EARN IS YOURS TO KEEP.”
“Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.”
“Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow. The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath its shade.”
“THE FIVE LAWS OF GOLD I. Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earngs to create an estate for his future and that of his family. II. Gold laboreth diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field. III. Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling. IV. Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those skilled in its keep. V. Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment.”
“How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this? If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth, even as water seeks its level? If a man has within him the soul of a free man, will he not become respected and honored in his own city in spite of his misfortune?”
“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.”
“The man who became of his understanding of the laws of wealth, acquireth a growing surplus, should give thought to those future days. He should plan certain investments or provisions that may endure safely for many years, yet will be available when the time arrives which he has so wisely anticipated.”
“The thoughts of youth,’ he continued, ‘are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that oft make brilliant the sky, but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course.”
The Richest Man in Babylon: Quotes
“BETTER A LITTLE CAUTION THAN A GREAT REGRET”
“Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man’s training to accomplish.”
“We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, ‘What can I do who am but a slave?”
“But too often does youth think that age knows only the wisdom of days that are gone, and therefore profits not. But remember this; the sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.”
“Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.”
