40 best wealth-building quotes from the richest man in babylon
- “A part of all you earn is yours to keep.”
- “Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.”
- “Invest thy treasure with greatest caution that it not be lost. Usurious rates of return are deceitful sirens that sing but to lure the unwary upon the rocks of loss and remorse.”
- “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.”
- “Money is the medium by which earthly success is measured. Money makes possible the enjoyment of the best the earth affords.”
- “That what each of us calls our ‘necessary expenses’ will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.”
- “Be not misled by thine own romantic desires to make wealth rapidly.”
- “One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.”
- “Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it, but with wisdom, gold can be secured by those who have it not.”
- “The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.”
- “Men of action are favored by the goddess of good luck.”
- “Wealth that comes quickly goeth the same way. Wealth that stayeth to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.”
- “Act like a free man and succeed like one! Decide what thou desirest to accomplish and then work will aid thee to achieve it!”
- “Remember, work well done does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.”
- “Youth, never having had experience, can not realize that hopeless debt is like a deep pit into which one may descend quickly and where on may struggle vainly for many days.”
- “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?”
- “There come many blessings to the man who owneth his own house. And greatly will it reduce his cost of living, making available more of his earning for pleasures and the gratification of his desires.”
- “I do recommend to all men, that they, by wise and well thought out methods, do provide against a lean purse in their mature years. For a lean purse to a man no longer able to earn or to a family without its head is a sore tragedy.”
- “Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.”
- “Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less that one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.”
- “Gold laboreth diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field.”
- “Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.”
- “If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend’s burdens upon thyself.”
- “I tell you, my students, a man’s wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse and keepeth it always bulging. That is what every man desireth. That is what thou, each one of thee desireth; an income that continueth to come whether thou work or travel.”
- “In tilling the soil, in honest trading, in all of man’s occupations, there is opportunity to make a profit upon his efforts and his transactions.”
- “Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.”
- “Better a little caution than a great regret.”
- “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.”
- “It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.”
- “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.”
- “Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisitions.”
- “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?”
- “As for time, all men have it in abundance.”
- “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?”
- “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.”
- “Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.”
- “The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded. If he is an artisan, he may seek to learn the methods and the tools of those most skillful in the same line. If he laboreth at the law or at healing, he may consult and exchange knowledge with others of his calling. (And) If he be a merchant, he may continually seek better goods that can be purchased at lower prices.”
