The Richest Man in Babylon: 9789387669369 (GP Self-Help Collection Book 1)

by George S. Clason

Babylon is an outstanding example of man’s ability to achieve great objectives, using whatever means are at his disposal.

it was eventually abandoned, deserted, left for the winds and storms to level once again to that desert earth from which its grandeur had originally been built.

A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill

why we have never found any measure of wealth. We never sought it. Thou hast labored patiently to build the staunchest chariots in Babylon. To that purpose was devoted your best endeavors. Therefore, at it thou didst succeed. I strove to become a skillful lyre player. And, at it I did succeed.