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October 8 - October 14, 2024
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. Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. Money is governed today by the same laws which controlled it when prosperous men thronged the streets of Babylon, six thousand years ago.
“a man’s wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it. Arkad has an income that
constantly keeps his purse full, no matter how liberally he spends.”
“I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit upon the wall or travel to far lands.
“In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.
He was generous in his charities. He was generous with his family. He was liberal in his own expenses. But nevertheless each year his wealth increased more rapidly than he spent it.
“Wealth is a power. With wealth many things are possible.
I decided that if I was to achieve what I desired, time and study would be required.
learning was of two kinds: the one kind 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?
“Therefore did I decide to find out how one might accumulate wealth, and when I had found out, to make this my task and do it well.
‘I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.
“Every gold piece you save is a slave to work for you. Every copper it earns is its child that also can earn for you. If you would become wealthy, then what you save must earn, and its children must earn, that all may help to give to you the abundance you crave.”
“A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do not buy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you can pay out of the rest and still have enough for food and charity and penance to the gods.
“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.”
Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having. He who takes advice about his savings from one who is inexperienced in such matters, shall pay with his savings for proving the falsity of their opinions.”
You first learned to live upon less than you could earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have learned to make gold work for you.”
Opportunity is a
haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.”
Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment.
Therefore, I am careful not to start difficult and impractical tasks, because I love leisure.”
Therefore invest thy treasure with greatest caution that it be not lost.
“Provide also that thy family may not want should the Gods call thee to their realms.
“Counsel with wise men. Seek the advice of men whose daily work is handling money.
A small return and a safe one is far more desirable than risk.
“Enjoy life while you are here. Do not overstrain or try to save too much.
When that man had found the light, a place awaited him. No one could fill that place until he had for himself worked out his own understanding, until he was ready for opportunity.
A Part of All You Earn Is Yours to Keep.
that what each of us calls our ‘necessary expenses’ will always
grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.
“This, then, is the second cure for a lean purse. Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.”
“This, then, is the third cure for a lean purse: to put each coin to laboring that it may reproduce its kind even as the flocks of the field and help bring to thee income, a stream of wealth that shall flow constantly into thy purse.”
Study carefully, before parting with thy treasure, each assurance that it may be safely reclaimed. Be not misled by thine own romantic desires to make wealth rapidly.
be not too confident of thine own wisdom in entrusting thy treasures to the possible pitfalls of investments. Better by far to consult the wisdom of those
experienced in handling money for profit. Such advice is freely given for the asking and may readily possess a value equal in gold to the sum thou considerest investing.
Guard thy treasure from loss by investing only where thy principal is safe, where it may be reclaimed if desirable, and where thou will not fail to collect a fair rental. Consult with wise men.
