Witten By GEORGE S CLASON
Babylon is an ancient city exist before 4000 years in the country of modern day Iraq. City of Babylon was situated on the banks of Euphrates river. The two natural resources in Babylon is water and fertile soil. The inhabitants where educated and enlightened people. They recorded events, poems, transcriptions of royal decrees, laws of the land etc., in tablets prepared by clay. It was a city surrounded with walls. Their engineers construct canals to water the fertile land of Babylon to do cultivation. They Babylonians were wise financiers and traders. They are the one’s who first start promissory notes .
The Rich man of Babylon begins with the story of Bansir, a discouraged chariot builder, who worked hard to build beautiful chariots to his wealthy customers. One of his friends, Kobbi, arrived at his workshop and both were went into a discussion about Income. They understood their fault and it was that they never ” Sought about Investment” until . Finally, both of them decided to ask wise advise about income and wealth from one of their good friends, Arkad. Arkad informed them , ” if they never succeed in acquiring wealth more than a bear existence, “it reveals that you either have failed to learn the laws that govern building of wealth or you do not observe them”. He said ” wealth is a power. With wealth many things are possible”. Arkad explain to them the story of the rich and wisest man in Babylon, Algamish, taught him about wealth. The wise man Algamish initially advise him to keep one tenth of all his earnings for himself. This makes Arkad to learn a lesson to leave less than he earns. Secondly, he taught him to take advise only from experts . Thirdly, he taught him the lesson of “gold work for him”. That is making money out of money. Algamish understood that Arkad had learned “how to acquire money, how to keep it and how to use it” . So, he appointed him as his partner and give him share in his estate. Because, Arkad has learned the secrete of wealth management and so he is “competent for responsible position.” So, Alkard joined with him and entitled to increase the value of the properties of Algamish. This revels the fact that , if we have desire to prosper, then, fortunate will lead us to meet the suitable person. After a point of time, Alkard had chosen by the ruler of Babylon to teach the citizens of Babylon how to create and maintain wealth. He informed the king that he became wealthy by ” taking advantage of the opportunities available for all citizens of the city .” So, with the permission of the king, Alkard invited 100 people to teach “Seven cures for a lean purse” . The ultimate remedies to fill your purse with substantial amount of Gold.
- 1. Out of the total earnings spend only nine parts. Keep one part for yourself. God comes more easily to those who spend and keep some part of their earnings. This reveals the truth that gold avoids you, if your purse is empty.
- 2. Prepare a budget and mange all your necessary expenses based on it. This helps you to “pay for your enjoyments and to gratify thy desires with out spending” more than your earnings.
- 3. Make thy gold multiply. A man’s wealth has decided based on the income he creates. Every man has a desire to create income (gold coins), to flow to his purse and make it fattens, whether they work or travel. So, build platforms to create income , flow constantly in to your purse.
- 4. Guard thy treasure from Loss. . This is the basic principle of every investment. Understand the risk factor in your investment and secure your investment before you invest. Take wise advise . Do not tempted by seeing opportunities. Initially, acquire small amounts from your investments and learn how to protect them.
- 5. Make Thy Dwelling A profitable Investment. Make your own house by investing from the nine parts of your earnings. You can be rich faster, if you can transform the amount you keep for spending in to a profitable investment.
- 6. Insure A future Income. Plan and save for the future, so that you can utilize that income while you become old. This should Plan in advance for the safety of yourself and your family.
- 7. Increase Thy Ability To Earn. Increase your ability (power) by “study and become wiser, to become more skill full, to increases your respect”.
Most of the human beings has a desire to be lucky. If you play a game, the situation to win is always against the player. Chances to win is always beneficial to the game keeper. Luck is in other way call as opportunity. Opportunity does not wait for procrastinators. Wealth and success slip away from procrastinators. People who take action based on available opportunities favors the goddess of good luck. Old and wise Kalabab told the story of , Nomasir, the son of wise and richest man of Babylon. After ten years of wandering Nomasir returned to his fathers house. In that night, Arkad provide a great feast to honor of him. After the feast Nomasir narrate about his experience in the past ten years. It was a story with bitter, in experience and learnings. At the end of the report of his journey, Nomasir read out the wisdom engraved upon the 5 tablets of clay which was given to him by his father before starting the journey.
Gold Embraces if you follow below 3 rules
- Man should keep one tenth of his earnings for his future
- For a wise person, Gold multiply just as that of flocks.
- Invest Gold only under the protection of wise advises.
Gold Slip away from you for below reasons.
- If a man invest it in unfamiliar business or purposes.
- If you do not have experience, if you try to earn impossible earnings, if you spend gold for romantic desires, follow advises of tricksters, to do fraudulent activities etc.
So, Invest Gold safely to brig safe returns. Wealth that come fast will go fast. Wealth that gives enjoyment and satisfaction increases gradually. It is same as that of a child who grow gradually and develop with experience and knowledge.