The Richest Man in Babylon
by George S. Clason

This is truly a wonderful book. It is not only an inspirational book but it is surely a practical book as well. I have replicated the text from the book, and my wonderful girlfriend made the scrolls for me. I will upload some pictures very soon it looks great. Above is the text on the scroll.

 

Scroll of Financial Freedom:
The Seven Cures for a Lean Purse

“Proper preparation is the key to our success:
Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts; our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.”

“The thoughts of youth are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that often make brilliant the sky.  However, the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailors may depend upon them to stir his course.”

The Seven Cures

The First Cure – Start Thy Purse to Fattening
For every ten coins thou placeth within thy purse, take out for use but nine.  Thy purse will start to fatten at once and its increasing weight will feel good in thy hand and bring satisfaction to thy soul.  Now I will tell a strange truth, the reason for which I know not. When I ceased to pay out more than nine-tenths of my earnings, I managed to get along just as well.  I was not shorter than before.

The Second Cure – Control Thy Expenditures
Engrave upon the clay each thing for which thou desireth to spend.  Select thoses that are necessary and others that are possible to the expenditures of nine tenths of thy income.  Cross out the rest and consider them but a part of that great multitude of desires that must go unsatisfied and regret them not.
Budget thy expenses that thou mayeth have coins to pay thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyment and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without expending more then nine tenths of thy earnings.

The Third Cure – Make thy gold multiply
I tell you, my students, a man's wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is in the income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse and keepeth it always bulging.  That is what every man desireth.  That is what thou, each one of thee desireth; an income that continueth to come whether thou work or travel. 
Put each coin to laboring that it may reproduce its kind even as the flock of the field and help bring to thee income, a stream of wealth that should flow constantly into thy purse.

The Forth Cure – Guard Thy Treasures from Lost
This, then, is the fourth cure for a lean purse and of great importance if it prevents thy purse from being emptied once it has become well filled.  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.  Secure the advice of those experienced in the profitable handling of gold.  Let their wisdom protect thy treasure from unsafe investments.
The Fifth Cure – Make of Thy Dwelling a Profitable One
Thus come many blessings to the man who owneth his own house and greatly will it reduce his cost of living, making available more of his earnings for pleasures and the gratification of his desires.  This, then, is the fifth cure for a lean purse: Own thy own home.

The Sixth Cure – Ensure a Future Income
Therefore do I say that it behooves a man to make preparation for a suitable income in the days to come, when he is no longer young, and to make preparations for his family should he be no longer with them to comfort and support them. Buy houses or lands, lend money, or invest it at a safe rate.  Provide in advance for the needs of thy growing age and the protection of thy family.

The Seventh Cure – Increase Thy Ability to Earn
A vital requirement to increase thy earnings is the strong desire to earn more.  A proper and commendable desire, preceding accomplishment must be desired.  Thy desires must be strong and definite.  General desires are but weak longings for a man to wish to be rich is of little purpose, for a man to desire five pieces of gold is a tangible desire which he can press to fulfillment.  Then you will find the way to obtain ten pieces and twenty pieces and one thousand pieces and behold he has become wealthy.
Cultivate thy own powers to study and become wiser to become more skillful, to so act to respect thyself.  Thereby thou shall acquire confidence in thy self to achieve thy carefully considered desires.
This than are the seven cures for a lean purse which out of experience of a long and successful life I do urge for all man who desire wealth go thou forth and practice these truths, go thou forth and teach these truths, that you mayeth prosper and grow wealthy as is thy right.

Arkad  -

Babylon, 1623 B.C