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Summary: Simple, Brief, Clear, and Loaded With¿..DIAMONDS & GOLD!
Review: In this easy to read and easy to understand book, you will find priceless, ageless advice for creating, building and maintaining wealth, woven into a wonderful story. This book will make for compelling, invaluable reading for anyone--men or women, boys or girls--from ages 10--109 for generations to come, with an eye for improving your financial standing in life. You will thoroughly enjoy reading it because it's a great story, and you will refer to it, and re-read it again and again for its usefulness. If only college investment textbooks could be this good!Apply the author's message to your life, and you will reap both monetary and spiritual rewards!
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Summary: This is the carved tablet! Choose it!
Review: After reading this book you will understand the title. This is the perfect gift for a graduate or anybody looking to seriously start saving. The chapters are short and concise and the stories are easy to follow and understand. While most of the morals of the stories are well-known, this book helps to point out the obvious. And in case you don't actually figure out the point of each story, there is a short summary at the end of each one. 'Richest' is a lot easier to read than most of the other books on similar topics and to think this one has been out longer! Definitely recommended and a great gift. Especially with all the talk about teens and college grads who are financially lost. Great way to start them off on he right financial foot.
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Summary: Especially Interesting and Relevant
Review: What can I say that hasn't already been said? This book is great. I've read many books on finance and investing, and just when I was getting jaded, this gem popped up. The title kept jumping out when I did on-line searches, and I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about. This book was written in 1926, and I guess that is what took me so long to buy it. I figured that times changed, and it would be out of date, only recommended as a "quaint" or "nostalgic" investing book. I couldn't have been more wrong. This book is as true today as it ever was, and the "parable" style of the book makes it way more interesting than most books on finance. It is a great introduction to saving, and makes a great read (regardless of your level of fiscal acuity). If you don't know where to turn financially, and don't understand how to "get ahead", do yourself a favor and read this book. If you take it to heart, it really will help! (One last thing, one other book written in the same era that is just as relevant and entertaining is "Where are the Customer's Yachts?")
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Summary: What? You haven't read this book yet?
Review: "A part of all I earn is mine to keep." Those famous words have been repeated over and over again since this book was first published in the 1920s. This book is something like 75+ years old now and it just keeps on selling. I'd like to get a slice out of this guy's royalty check. He's long dead by now, so his heirs are certainly happy. It seems like everyone who has a pulse has read this book at some point in their life. I read it every now and then. Can anyone give this book fewer than 5 stars? You would have to be awfully negative not to find something useful in this book. So, if you're reading this review, you must have heard about this book but never read it. Hmmmm, do yourself a huge favor and buy this book. In fact, don't just buy it and read it. Apply the principles in this book. Out of all the millions of people who have read this book, how many have applied its principles? Unfortunately, not very many. I read in a news article not too long ago that something like $347 million dollars per day is charged on credit cards in the United States. If you're going to use a credit card, you might as well buy this book. Okay, for the annoying part. Yes, it's written in that really ancient style, so it can be a bit hard to get through. It sounds much like a biblical parable which is I guess what the author intended. It does add a nice flavor to the book as opposed to that silly modern dumbed down style we're all used to in some financial books. I suppose if the book were written in modern style writing it just wouldn't have that "pearls of wisdom" tone to it. So, get used to the writing style. It's part of the package. One of the hallmarks of a really timeless book is how many other authors quote from it, recommend it and refer to it. I can't think of any financial book which doesn't advocate setting aside 10% of one's income each month or something along that line. Call it "pay yourself first" or whatever, but this author is widely credited for starting that whole concept many, many years ago. Everything since then is just an imitation. I'm giving this book 5 stars, well, because it's the classic book on becoming wealthy. It doesn't talk about investing strategies, how to get rich quick and all that stuff. This is a very basic, lay the foundation type financial book. Set aside money each money to compound and grow. Control your expenses, live below your means. You know the story. You've heard it all before. You may have heard it all before, but this is where it started.
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Summary: A timeless and enlightening guide
Review: I have owned a dog-eared copy of this classic for over twenty years and I read it at least once per year. Each time I find something profound that I somehow overlooked. Written in the style of ancient parables, this masterpiece should be shared with any young person about to embark on his/her first financial journey of earning and saving. Cutting through stuffy economic principles Clason lends good old fashioned horse sense to the mystery of accumulating wealth and security. I have made gifts of copies of this book to more people than I care to count and it has touched each one profoundly. Great company for a first paycheck!
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Summary: Key Advice for those who need it
Review: Sound advice delivered in a clear and simple style must be serving a need because this classic has sold over 2 million copies. I read it in an hour and you can too. Perhaps the people who would benefit the most are those afflicted by those terrible credit card debts. Clason has a workable system of getting out of debt and onto the gravy train. All you need is to learn the system and have the guts to make it work for you. Incidentally, I see some people think the advice and stories told here actuallly came from ancient texts uncovered in Babylon (al Hillah in Iraq). Nope, the advice comes from Clason himself and has been made more interesting by his literary device.
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Summary: EYE/MIND OPENER
Review: I TRIED THE STEPS FROM EACH STORY IN THE BOOK,AND THEY HAVE FROM TIME AND TIME AGAIN PROVED TO BE A LIGHT OF WISDOM FOR MY FINANCES.FROM A PITIFUL SAVINGS ACCOUNT TO MORE ACCOUNTS,BETTER CREDIT RATING,AND SOON TO OTHER INVESTMENTS.AND WISDOM OF KNOWING TO GET ADVICE FROM THOSE QUALIFIED IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF HIS/HER PROFESSION TO HELP KEEP ONES HARD EARNED SAVINGS(OR ANY OTHER MATTER) SAFE FROM LOSS.THE BOOK GIVES SOME OTHER INSIGHTS ABOUT HOW OUR DESIRES(WITHOUT PROPER DISCIPLINE)CAN ALSO LOSE THE FRUIT OF OUR LABORS.
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Summary: Superbly written, excellent book!
Review: I truly enjoyed reading this book. It is very well written. Although old, the principles will always apply. They are built into a fictional (I suppose it's fiction) account of the lives of several citizens of ancient Babylon. Being a history buff, I loved it. I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn the secrets to becoming wealthy.
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Summary: Timeless, Priceless ....
Review: Reading this book the first time, allowed me to put things in prespective, for the first time in my life (I am Forty) I have a solid financial plan that is so simple and sensible, and most important effective. The real beauty of this book,is that its simple rules or secrets, can be applied with success at any time, in any place, and no matter how old or young you are, you wish you read it one day sooner, eventhough it is never to late. I highly recommend this book for anyone needs guidance and orientation to control his or her own life in very very short time, I purchased three more copies, to offer them as gifts to my dearest pals.
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Summary: Take this advice and prosper
Review: The lifestyle and financial philosopies discussed in The Richest Man in Babylon are truly "secrets" to acquiring real wealth. I enjoyed the book because the "secrets" are not secrets at all. The methods can be used by people of all income levels. The Richest Man in Babylon outlines the most simple, time tested and true methods for meeting your wealth objectives. Any person living beyond their means can instantly become empowered by reading this book. This book is a must read for any person trying to create and preserve wealth for themselves and their family.
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