This article is the second article in series of “The Richest Man in Babylon” book. For the first article, please see this link.
The Richest Man in Babylon
In Babylon, these is one who is very rich man named Arkad. Sometime, the governor in Babylon has to borrow some gold from Arkad. However, Arkad is not rich when he was born. He did not a genius guy. So his old friends assume that he is the luckiest guy that god make him become a rich man. However, he just use some easy tip.
“I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep."
So you have to keep 1 from 10 of your earned. Then in 10 years, you will have more than one year’s gold. After that, you have to make them (gold) work for you. You have to invest your gold to make them growth. However, if you want to invest, please make sure that you invest with the right person. For example, if you want to invest in gem, you need the person who understand gem. But Arkad used to learn investment lesson by invest in gem with person who build bricks. So he lost his gold because the guy who build bricks was deceived because he is not totally understand the gem.
The tales story that use Babylon as background in this book, you can enjoy with learning the investment lesson. I recommended you this book for investment then you will understand why this book still published since 1926 unit nowadays.
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