Скучно читать книги по финансовой грамотности? Джордж Клейсон еще в 1926 году написал «Самого богатого человека в Вавилоне», где поделился с читателями советами по распределению средств, используя для этого формат вавилонских притч.
Клейсон использовал настоящие записи из Древней Месопотамии в качестве источников, поэтому можно сказать, что эта книга откроет вам древнейшие секреты успеха и обогащения.
Но даже если вы не заинтересованы в улучшении своего материального блага, то все-равно сможете насладиться занимательными притчами на английском языке.
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Джордж Сэмюэль Клейсон. The Richest Man in Babylon / Самый богатый человек в Вавилоне
About the author
Foreword
An Historical Sketch of Babylon
The Man Who Desired Gold
The Richest Man in Babylon
Seven Cures For a Lean Purse
The first cure. Start thy purse to fattening
The second cure. Control thy expenditures
The third cure. Make thy gold multiply
The fifth cure. Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment
The sixth cure. Insure a future income
The seventh cure. Increase thy ability to earn
Meet the Goddess of Good Luck
The Five Laws of Gold
The Gold Lender of Babylon
The Walls of Babylon
The Camel Trader of Babylon
The Clay Tablets From Babylon
Tablet No. I
Tablet No. II
Tablet No. III
Tablet No. IV
Tablet No. V
The Luckiest Man in Babylon
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GEORGE SAMUEL CLASON was born in Louisiana, Missouri, on November 7, 1874. He attended the University of Nebraska and served in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War. Beginning a long career in publishing, he founded the Clason Map Company of Denver, Colorado, and published the first road atlas of the United States and Canada. In 1926, he issued the first of a famous series of pamphlets on thrift and financial success, using parables set in ancient Babylon to make each of his points. These were distributed in large quantities by banks and insurance companies and became familiar to millions, the most famous being “The Richest Man in Babylon,” the parable from which the present volume takes its title. These “Babylonian parables” have become a modern inspirational classic.
To new readers the author is happy to extend the wish that its pages may contain for them the same inspiration for growing bank accounts, greater financial successes and the solution of difficult personal financial problems so enthusiastically reported by readers from coast to coast.
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The later and more famous walls were started about six hundred years before the time of Christ by King Nabopolassar. Upon such a gigantic scale did he plan the rebuilding, he did not live to see the work finished. This was left to his son, Nebuchadnezzar, whose name is familiar in Biblical history.
The height and length of these later walls staggers belief. They are reported upon reliable authority to have been about one hundred and sixty feet high, the equivalent of the height of a modern fifteen story office building. The total length is estimated as between nine and eleven miles. So wide was the top that a six-horse chariot could be driven around them. Of this tremendous structure, little now remains except portions of the foundations and the moat. In addition to the ravages of the elements, the Arabs completed the destruction by quarrying the brick for building purposes elsewhere.
