The Richest Man In Babylon

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

Important points to note

1. A part of all you earn is yours to keep
2. Men of action are favoured by the goddess of good luck
3. Better a little caution than a great regret
4. We cannot afford to be without adequate protection
5. Where the determination is, the way can be found

"If a man be lucky, there is no foretelling the possible extent of his good fortune. Pitch him into the Euphrates and like as not he will swim out with a pearl in his hand"
- Babylonian Proverb

The five laws of gold

1. Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by note less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family
2. Gold laboreth diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field
3. Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling
4. 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
5. 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