<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Thought is a definite idea that combined with purpose, persistence, burning desire, and faith is transmuted into the acquisition of wealth...</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The ability to control our thoughts is what enables us to fashion our own reality</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hardwork</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Thought is energy that drives the action necessary to overcome obstacles between you and that which you desire.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">You are the master of your fate, the caption of your soul.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appeareance.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Thought without persistence often leads to failure.</li></ol>

Step 1 : Harness the Power of Thought(Part1)

Before success comes to most people, they are sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When faced with defeat, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. Persistence is the key to succeeding in the face of adversity...

step 1 : Harness the power of thought(Part2)

<ol><li>You may see your best friend and your greatest enemy by stepping in front of a mirror.</li><li>The most common cause of both success and failure is self.</li><li>Know yourself first and based on your strengths and weaknesses choose to lead or follow.</li><li>A leader is one who creates opportunities and induces followers to design, produce, market, and distribute products and services to the marketplace.11</li></ol>

Step 2 : Know and Improve Yourself

<ol><li>Unwavering courage based upon knowledge of self, and of one's occupation.</li><li>Self-control</li><li>Keen sense of justice</li><li>Definiteness of decision</li><li>Definiteness of plans</li><li>Habit of doing more than one is paid for</li><li>Pleasing Personality</li><li>Sympathy and understanding</li><li>Mastery of details</li><li>Willingness to assume full responsibility</li><li>Co-operation</li></ol>

11 Essential Leadership Attributes

<ol><li>Inability to organize details.</li><li>Unwillingness to render humble service.</li><li>Expectation of pay for what they "know" instead of what they do with that which they know</li><li>Fear of competition from followers</li><li>Lack of imagination</li><li>Selfishness</li><li>Intemperance</li><li>Disloyalty</li><li>Emphasis of the "authority" of leadership</li><li>Emphasis of title.</li></ol>

10 Major causes of leadership failure

<ol><li>Unfavorable hereditary background</li><li>Lack of a well-defined purpose in life</li><li>Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity</li><li>Insufficient education</li><li>Lack Lof self-discipline</li><li>Ill Health</li><li>Unfavorable environmental influences during childhood</li><li>Procastination</li><li>Lack of Persistence</li><li>Negative Personality</li><li>Lack of controlled sexual urge</li><li>Uncontrolled desire for "something for nothing"</li><li>Lack of a well-defined power of decision</li><li>One or more of the six basic fears</li><li>Wrong selection of a mate in marriage</li><li>Over-Caution</li><li>Wrong selection of associates in business</li><li>Superstition and prejudice</li><li>Wrong selection of vocation</li><li> Lack of concentration of effort</li></ol>

Remove obstacles to success: 31 major causes of failure

21.The habit of indiscriminate spending22.Lack of enthusiasm23.Intolerance24.Intemperance25.Inability to cooperate with others26.Possession of power that was not acquired through self-effort27.Intentional dishonesty28.Egotism and vanity29.Guessing instead of thinking30.Lack of Capital31.Other

31 major causes of failure(continue...)

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts.Take inventory of yourself and find out how many of the "ghosts" are standing in your way.Liberate yourself from the six ghosts of fear

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SIX basic fears:<ol><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of Poverty</li><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of Criticism</li><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of ill Health</li><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of Lost Love</li><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of Old Age</li><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of Death</li></ol>Thought impulses begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent, whether those thoughts are voluntary or involuntary.	A Person whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his or her own chances of intelligent action, but also transmits these destructiv vibrations to the minds of other people, destroying their chances.

Step 3 : Outwit the Six Ghosts of fear

"The most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people." "You have absolute control over but one thing : your thoughts." "The mind can produce anything the mind can conceive and believe."

<ol><li class="ql-align-center">The 7th basic evil is susceptibility to negative influences. It is more deeply seated and more often fatal than all of the 6 fears.</li><li class="ql-align-center">The most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.</li><li class="ql-align-center">What you have accomplished is the only measure of your success.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Excuses are no substitute for success.</li></ol>

Step4 : Eliminate Negative Thinking : The 7th basic evil

Every noteworthy achievement begins with a burning desire for what one wants. Desire backed by faith knows no such words as "impossible". Only those who become money conscious ever accumulate great riches. No more effort is required to demand abundance and prosperity than is required to accept misery and poverty. Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith

<ol><li class="ql-align-center">You must know what you want and have a burning desire to possess it.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Imagine yourself successful, reflect on past successes, set definite goals, and respond positively to life.</li><li class="ql-align-center">When you have a burning desire, no obstacle is too big to overcome.</li><li class="ql-align-center">The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves".</li><li class="ql-align-center">Desire backed by faith knows no such word as "impossible".</li><li class="ql-align-center">Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.</li></ol>

Step 5 : Develop a Burning Desire

The subconscious mind transmutes emotionally charged thought mixed with faith into it physical equivalent. The subconscious mind works day and night. The subconscious acts on the thoughts it is fed, whether they are positive or negative.

<ol><li>You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose that you wish transformed into concrete form. The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires that have been mixed with emotional feeling, such as faith.</li><li>The subconscious mind is the connecting link between the finite mind and infinite intelligence.</li><li>Voluntary use of the subconscious mind calls for coordinat on and application of all 17 steps.</li><li>You are living in the midst of all manner of thought impulses that are reaching your subconscious mind without your knowledge.</li></ol>

Step 6 : Stamp Positive Impressions on your subconscious mind

<ol><li>Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of habit will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely that the negatives cannot enter it</li><li>Seven major positive emotions:</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Desire</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Faith</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Love</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Sex {Passion}</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Enthusiasm</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Romance</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Hope</li><li>Seven major negative emotions(to be avoided)</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Fear</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Jeaulosy</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Hatred</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Revenge</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Greed</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Superstition</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Anger</li></ol>

Step 6 : (Continues...)

Auto-suggestion is the only means to transfer thoughts and beliefs to the subconscious mind. Your mind has no limitations except those you choose to acknowledge and accept. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thoughts planted in the subconscious mind.

<ol><li>No thought, whether negative or positive, can enter the subconscious mind without the aid of the principle of auto-suggestion, with the exception of thoughts picked up from the ether.</li><li>People may gain control of themselves and their environment, because they have the power to influence their own subconscious mind and through their subconscious minds gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.</li><li>The subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute faith, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before t</li></ol>

Step 7 : Control your own thoughts with auto-suggestion

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">With auto-suggestion, you play a perfectly legitimate " trick" on your subconscious mind by making it believe, because you believe it, that you must have the amount of money you are visualizing, that this money is already awaiting your claim, that the subconscious mind must hand over to you practical plans for acquiring the money which is yours. Hand over the thought suggested to your imagination and see what your imagination can or will do to create practical plans for accumulating that money.....</li></ol>

Step 7 : (Continues...)

Faith is the visualization and belief in the attainment of desire................ To transmute desire for riches into money, you must first convince your subconscious mind that you will receive that money............... Auto-suggestion convinces the subconscious mind to believe whatever you tell it to believe. It is the only method to induce faith..............

<ol><li class="ql-align-center">Faith is the visualization and belief in the attainment of desire. It is the eternal elixir that gives life power and gives action to the impulse of thought....</li><li class="ql-align-center">Perfection comes through practice. It cannot come by merely reading instructions...</li><li class="ql-align-center">Repetition of affirmation to your subconscious mind is the only known method to induce faith....</li><li class="ql-align-center">Your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence...</li><li class="ql-align-center">Thoughts mixed with emotions constitute a "magnetic" force which attracts, from the vibrations of the ether, other similar, or related thoughts...</li><li class="ql-align-center">Riches begin in the form of thought!..</li></ol>

Step 8 : Believe It

Imagination is the workshop wherein all plans are fashioned..... Your only limitation, within reason, lies in the development and use of your imagination.... Ideas can be transmuted into cash through the power of definite purpose, plus definite plans.... Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hardwork!..

The desire is crystallized into reality. Man can create anything he can imagine.
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Step 9 : Engage Your Imagination

<ol><li class="ql-align-center">The 6th sense is the dorr to the Temple of Wisdom</li><li class="ql-align-center">People become what they are because of their dominating thoughts and desires</li><li class="ql-align-center">Infinite Intelligence may,through the principles of this philosophy,be induced to aid in transmutin desires into concrete or material form</li><li class="ql-align-center">Any emergency that arouses the emotions brings the 6th sense into action.</li></ol>﻿

Step 10 : Develop your 6th sense

Sex transmutation is the switching of the mind from thoughts of physical sexual expression to thoughts of some other nature... The transmutation of sexual desire drives the creative imagination... Sex transmutation will lift one to the status of a genius.

<ol><li>Sexual desire is,by far,the most intense and powerful of all mind stimuli,far more potent than all of the others combined</li><li>The 6th sense is the faculty that marks the difference between a genius and an ordinary individual</li><li>A highly sexed nature is a blessing,not a curse</li><li>When combined,the emotions of sex,love and romance may lift one to an altitude of a genius</li><li>The main difference between love and sex is that love is spiritual, whereas sex is biological</li><li>Far from becoming geniuses bcoz of great sex desires,all too many people lower themselves,through misunderstanding and misuse of this great force</li></ol>

Step 11 : Crack the Mystery of Sex Transmutation

The human brain is a broadcasting and receiving station for thought... Thought vibration, stepped up by emotion, can be broadcast and received by the brain.. Your intangible self is more powerful than the physical self you perceive..

<ol><li>Auto-suggestion is the means by which thought mixed with emotion is impressed upon the subconscious mind</li><li>It is inconceivable that such a network of intricate machinery should exist for the sole purpose of carrying on the physical functions incidental to growth and maintenance of the physical body.</li><li>The simplest and most practical use of the master mind principle is to engage in a harmonious discussion of a definite subject among members of your Master Mind group.</li></ol>

Step 12 : Empower your Brain : Mental Telepathy and Clairvoyance

<ol><li>Power is organized and intelligently directed knowledge</li><li>Master Mind is coordination of knowledge and effort,in a spirit of harmony,among 2 or more people,for the attainment of a definitepurpose</li><li>Great power can be accumulated through no other principle than the Master Mind</li><li>People take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony</li><li>Power is required for the accumulation and retention of money</li></ol>

Step 13 : Tap the Power of the Master Mind

<ol><li>You cannot accumulate money without a practical, workable plan.</li><li>No Individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune without the cooperation of other people</li><li>A Quitter never wins and a winner never quits...</li><li>If you do not have property or ideas to transmute into riches, then all you can offer are your personal services</li><li>QQS Formula: Quality + Quantity + Spirit of Cooperation = Perfect marketing of service</li><li>If you want money, be worth more money!!!</li></ol>

Step 14 : Settle on a plan

An idea combined with a plan and the specialized knowledge to execute the plan yields riches... Knowledge is power only when organized into a definite plan of action for achieving a definite goal.. Specialized knowledge does not have to be in the possession of the person who accumulates the fortune

<ol><li>The idea is the main thing. Specialized knowledge may be found just around the corner -- any corner!</li><li>The person who stops seeking knowledge merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, regardless of his calling</li><li>The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge</li><li>Any person is educated who knows where to get knowledge when needed and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.</li><li>Doing a thing well is never wasted effort!!!</li></ol>

Step 15 : Put Specialized knowledge to work for you

<ol><li>Successful people decide and then pursue their goals with a singularity of purpose</li><li>The value of decisions depends upon the courage required to render them</li><li>Procastination is symptomatic of indecisiveness</li><li>Let one of your first decisions be to keep a closed mouth and open ears and eyes</li><li>The value of decisions depends upon the courage required to render them</li></ol>﻿

Step 16 : Be Decisive

<ol><li>Persist : To forge ahead despite opposition, misfortune, and criticism</li><li>Persistence is to character what carbon is to steel</li><li>Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage</li><li>Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.</li><li>A Silent irresistible power comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement</li></ol>

Step 17 : Be Persistent

This book is very useful for everyone irrespective of age,gender and qualification who wants to earn more money and succeed in life and to achieve their definite goals with ease.

Think and Grow Rich has been called the "Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature." It was the first book to boldly ask, "What makes a winner?" The man who asked and listened for the answer, Napoleon Hill, is now counted in the top ranks of the world's winners himself.The most famous of all teachers of success spent "a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort" to produce the "Law of Success" philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized in this one. In the original Think and Grow Rich, published in 1937, Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles. In the updated version, Arthur R. Pell, Ph.D., a nationally known author, lecturer, and consultant in human resources management and an expert in applying Hill's thought, deftly interweaves anecdotes of how contemporary millionaires and billionaires, such as Bill Gates, Mary Kay Ash, Dave Thomas, and Sir John Templeton, achieved their wealth. Outmoded or arcane terminology and examples are faithfully refreshed to preclude any stumbling blocks to a new generation of readers.

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Ever wondered how life would be if we could condition our minds to Think and Grow Rich? Author Napoleon Hill claims to have based this book on twenty years of rigorous research on the lives of those who had amassed great wealth and made a fortune. Observing their habits, their ways of working and the principles they followed, Hill put together laws and philosophies that can be practiced in everyday life to achieve all-round success. The narrative is rich with stories and anecdotes, which not only inspire, but also show a way forward to take action. After all, riches are not just material, but also pertaining to the mind, body and spirit.  Having sold more than fifteen million copies across the world, this book remains the most read self-improvement book of all times!

Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich, which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life.

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Think and Grow Rich

Decide exactly what we want.Clarity is essential.Write out your goals and objectives before you begin.

1. Set the table

Think on paper.Every minute you spend in planning can save you five or ten minutes in execution.

2. Plan every day in advance

20% of your activities will account for 80% of your results.Always concentrate your efforts on that top 20%.

3. Apply the 80/20 Rule to everything

Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work.Focus on these above all else.

4. Consider the consequences

Since you cant do everything, you must learn to deliberately put off those tasks that are of low value so that you enough time to do the few things that really count."Procastinate on the low value tasks."

5. Practice creative procastination

Before you begin work on a list of tasks, take a few moments to organize them by value and priority so you can be sure of working on your most important activities.

6. Use the ABCDE Method continually

Identify those results that you absolutely, positively have to get to do your job well, and work on them all day long.

7. Focus on key result areas

Identify the three things you do in your work that account for 90% of your contribution, and focus on getting them done before anything else.You will then have more time for your family and personal life.

8. Apply the Law of Three

Have everything you need at hand before you start.Assemble all the papers, information, tools, work materials, and numbers you might require so that you can get started and keep going.

9. Prepare thoroughly before you begin

You can accomplish the biggest and most complicated job if you just complete it one step at a time.

10. Take it one oil barrel at a time

The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done.Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well.

11. Upgrade your key skills

Determine the bottlenecks or choke points, internal or external, that set the speed at which you achieve your most important goals, and focus on alleviating them

12. Identify your key constraints

Imagine that you have to leave town for a month, and work as if you had to get your major task completed before you left.

13. Put the pressure on yourself

Be your own cheerleader.Look for the good in every situation.Focus on the solution rather than the problem.Always be optimistic and constructive.

14. Motivate yourself into action

Take back your time from enslaving technological addictions.Learn to oftern turn devices off and leave them off.

15. Technology is a terrible master

Use your technological tools to confront yourself with what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important.

16.Technology is a wonderful servant

Stop the interruptions and distractions that interfere with completing your most important tasks.

17. Focus your attention

Break large, complex tasks down into bite-sized pieces, and then do just one small part of the task to get started

18. Slice and dice the task

Organize your days around large blocks of time so you can c

19. Create large chunks of time

Make a habit of moving fast on your key tasks.Become known as a person who does things quickly and well

20. Develop a sense of urgency

Set clear prioritiesStart Immediately on your most important task and then work without stopping until the job is 100% complete.This is the real key to high performance and maximum personal productivity.

21. Single handle every task

This gives the clear path to overcome procastination in 21 ways and improve your productivity in our career and personal life to achieve your goals faster....

The fully revised and expanded edition of the life-changing global bestseller, now with new chapters on technology and maintaining focus. Achieve work-life balance by ending procrastination, and get your most important work done! There just isn't enough time for everything on our to-do list-and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done. There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that it's probably the worst thing you'll do all day. Using Eat That Frog as a metaphor for tackling the most challenging task of your day-the one you are most likely to procrastinate on but also probably the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life-Eat That Frog! shows you how to zero in on critical tasks and organize each day. You'll not only get more done faster but get the right things done. Bestselling author Brian Tracy cuts to the core of what is vital to effective time management: decision, discipline, and determination. In this fully revised and updated edition, he provides brand-new information on the importance of task completion and how to use the bevy of new technological tools that promise a more efficient workday, as well as which ones are worth implementing and which will just steal even more time. The third edition of Eat That Frog! is accompanied by a brand-new package of multimedia content to engage readers in eating their frogs every day! Packed with useful tips in short videos, interactive card games, and engaging exercises, this new package augments the third edition and brings you the wisdom of Brian Tracy as you've never seen before!

The motivational classic with more than 1.5 million copies sold will help you stop procrastinating and get more of the important things done—today!   There just isn’t enough time for everything on our to-do list—and there never will be. Successful people don’t try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure those get done. They eat their frogs.   There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re done with the worst thing you’ll have to do all day. For Tracy, eating a frog is a metaphor for tackling your most challenging task—but also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life. Eat That Frog—Snapshots shows you how to organize each day so you can zero in on these critical tasks and accomplish them efficiently and effectively.   In this fully redesigned and illustrative edition, Tracy explains how you can use technology to remind yourself of what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important. But one thing remains unchanged: Brian Tracy cuts to the core of what is vital to effective time management: decision, discipline, and determination. This life-changing book will ensure that you get more of your important tasks done—today!

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Men of action are favoured by the goddess of good luckTo attract good luck to oneself, it is necessary to take advantage of opportunities

Meet The Goddess Of Good Luck

1. Money comes gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.2. Money labours diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field.3. Gold clings to the protection of the cautions owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling.4. Gold slips 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.

The Five Laws Of Money

5. Money flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who follows the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment.

Lessons learnt1. If you desire to help your friend, do so in a way that will not bring your friend's burdens upon yourself.2. The wise lender wishes not the risk of the undertaking but the guarantee of safe payment.3. Money wisely lent may even double itself with its earnings before a man like you grows old.4. Better a little caution than a great regret.

The Gold Lender Of Babylon

We cannot afford to be without adequate protection

The Walls Of Babylon

1. Your debts are your enemies.2. Where the determination is, the way can be found.

The Camel Trader Of Babylon

1. 10% of what you earn shall be set aside as your own to keep.2. 70% of what you earn shall be used to provide a home, clothes to wear, and food to eat, with a bit extra to spend, that your lives be not lacking in pleasure anf and enjoyment.3. 20% of what you earn shall be divided honorably and fairly among those to whom you are indebted.

The Clay Tablets From Babylon

Remember..... Work well done does good to the man who does it.....No work to do is bad for any man.......

The Luckiest Man In Babylon 

This was a great book about money management for a person in any stage of his life.....

The Richest Man in Babylon is a book by George Samuel Clason which dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set in ancient Babylon. Through their experiences in business and managing household finance, the characters in the parables learn simple lessons in financial wisdom. By basing these parables in ancient times, but involving situations that modern people can understand and identify with, the author presents these lessons as timeless wisdom that is as relevant today as it was back then. The book began in 1926 as a series of informational pamphlets. Banks and insurance companies began to distribute these pamphlets, and the most famous ones were eventually compiled into this book.

Gain timeless wisdom on wealth-building in this multimillion-selling classic of personal finance.In ancient times, a man named Arkad is questioned by his childhood friends: how has he prospered enough to become the richest man in Babylon while they still struggle to get by? He answers them by sharing essential truths about money—earning it, spending it, saving it, giving it, investing it—that continue to benefit countless readers in the twenty-first century. Rooted in evergreen principles rather than get-rich-quick gimmicks, The Richest Man in Babylon is an indispensable read, providing solid, simple guidance on how to achieve financial security and success.

George Samuel Clason, also known as George S. Clason. George Samuel Clason was born in Louisiana, Missouri, and died in Napa, California.During his eighty two years he was a soldier, businessman and writer. He served in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War.Clason started two companies, the Clason Map Company of Denver Colorado and the Clason Publishing Company. The Clason Map Company was the first to publish a road atlas of the United States and Canada, and did not survive the Great Depression.George Clason is best known for writing a series of informational pamphlets about being thrifty and how to achieve financial success. He started writing the pamphlets in 1926, using parables that were set in ancient Babylon.

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"wealth is a power. With wealth many things are possible"

There are two kinds of learning:1. Being the things we learn and knew.2. The training that taught us how to find out what we did not know

" 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."If you did keep for yourself one-tenth of all you earn, how much would you have in ten years.?

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1. Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having....., seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it...2.Dont eat the children of your savings......,First get you an army of golden slaves and then many a rich banquet may you enjoy without regret.3. Learn to make your treasure work for you. Make it your slave. Make its children and it's children's children work for you.4. A small return and a safe one is far more desirable than risk.5. Enjoy life while you are here.Do not overstrain or try to save too much.

Lessons Learnt(Part 1):

The 3 laws of successfully handling wealth are:1. How to acquire money......2. How to keep it.......3. How to use it........

Laws Of Handling Wealth

1. Start your purse to flatenning,........... 'For each ten coins I put in, to spend but nine.'2. Control your expenditures........... 'Budget your expenses that you may have coins to pay for your necessities, to pay for your enjoyments and to gratify your worthwhile desires withour spending more than nine-tenths of your earnings.'3. Make your gold multiply........... 'To put each coin to labouring that it may reproduce its kind even as the flocks of the field and help bring to you income, a stream of wealth that shall flow constantly into your purse.'

Seven Cures For A Lean Purse

1. Thee - you2. Thy - your3. Mayest - may4. Thou - you5. Hast - have6. Thyself - yourself 7. Earneth - earn8. Satisfieth - satisfy9. Thine - yours

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4. Guard your treasures from loss........ 'Guard your treasure from loss by investing only where your prinicipal is safe, where it may be reclaimed if desirable, and where you will not fail to collect a fair rental. Consult with wise men. Secure the advice of those experienced in the profitable handling of gold(money). Let their wisdom protect your treasure from unsafe investments.'5. Make of your dwelling a profitable investment......... 'Own your own home.'6. Insure a future income.......... 'Provide in advance for the needs of your growing age and the protection of your family.'

Seven Cures For A Lean Purse (Continue)..

7. Increase your ability to earn..... 'Cultivate your own powers, to study and become wiser, to become more skillful, to so act as to respect yourself.'

This is the first book i have started reading for the tips or ideas for money management... Itz really a great book for becoming rich..

In short, The Richest Man in Babylon is a series of the most powerful financial parables ever written. These stories are set in ancient Babylon and relate the story of a Babylonian slave who uses the secrets of the book to become man of great wealth. Each story has a concrete point that becomes apparent from reading and digesting the message. These points are basic tenets of how to become successful in business. This book is perfect if you learn by reading the experiences of others. The entire book is told in a story-like format, so it often goes down much like reading a collection of short stories. The lessons and principles in The Richest Man In Babylon are pretty simple and to the point. The book consists of different stories back in the Babylonian days. The Richest Man in Babylon documented everything he had learned and his progress on clay tablets, which were later found in the 1930's by archaeologists and professors at a university. These professors had then learned of these principles and applied them to their own lives, to also become wealthy and financially abundant.

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