Top 69 Clason Quotes
#1. One of the best books I've read was George S. Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon, which offers financial advice in a collection of parables.
Sophia Amoruso
#2. Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
George S. Clason
#3. Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.
George S. Clason
#4. It was apparent that no one could do for the scribe what the scribe had done for himself.
George S. Clason
#5. Never mind though our purses be as empty as the falcon's nest of a year ago. Let that not detain us. We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means. Come, let us go to Arkad and ask how we, also, may acquire incomes for ourselves.
George S. Clason
#6. That what each of us calls our necessary expenses will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.
George S. Clason
#7. Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.
George S. Clason
#8. If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.
George S. Clason
#9. My admiration stranger within our gates, who hesitates not to speak the truth.
George S. Clason
#10. We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?
George S. Clason
#11. If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
George S. Clason
#12. The thoughts of youth,' he continued, 'are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that oft make brilliant the sky, but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course.
George S. Clason
#13. ACTION will lead thee forward to the successes thou dost desire.
George S. Clason
#14. Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.
George S. Clason
#15. Therefore, please some good gentlemen, tell me that right name you call man who puts off doing those things that mighty good for him." "Procrastinator," called a voice.
George S. Clason
#17. [H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.
George S. Clason
#20. The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works - also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.
George S. Clason
#22. Good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.
George S. Clason
#23. Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.
George S. Clason
#24. Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.
George S. Clason
#25. Gold cometh 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.
George S. Clason
#26. That is truth, Kobbi, unpleasant thought though it be. We do not wish to go on year after year living slavish lives. Working, working, working! Getting nowhere.
George S. Clason
#27. Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it.
George S. Clason
#28. You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you've learned to make gold work for you.
George S. Clason
#29. I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep. And so will you.
George S. Clason
#30. Each man has to work out his own understanding of what needs to be done, and then prepare himself to take advantage of the opportunity to succeed in a big way.
George S. Clason
#31. The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and
will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.
George S. Clason
#33. Yet he did possess one of the vital requirements to increase his earnings. Within him was a strong desire to earn more,
George S. Clason
#34. So must every man master his own spirit of procrastination before he can expect to share in the rich treasures of Babylon.
George S. Clason
#35. If you count your eggs now, you'll be disappointed by the dragons that come out!
Christian Clason
#36. You first learned to live upon less than you could earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have learned to make gold work for you.
George S. Clason
#37. Perhaps there is some secret we might learn if we but sought from those who knew,
George S. Clason
#38. Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.
George S. Clason
#39. It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.
George S. Clason
#41. Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.
George S. Clason
#43. And when youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years.
George S. Clason
#44. The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.
George S. Clason
#45. One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.
George S. Clason
#46. Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit upon the wall or travel to far lands.
George S. Clason
#47. Those eager to grasp opportunities for their betterment, do attract 'good luck'.
George S. Clason
#49. A part of all I earn is mine to keep.' Say it in the morning when you first arise. Say it at noon. Say it at night. Say it each hour of every day. Say it to yourself until the words stand out like letters of fire across the sky.
George S. Clason
#50. In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.
George S. Clason
#51. Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.
George S. Clason
#54. 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.
George S. Clason
#55. The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly rewarded.
George S. Clason
#57. Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.
George S. Clason
#58. Usurious rates of return are deceitful sirens that sing but to lure the unwary upon the rocks of loss and remorse.
George S. Clason
#59. I staggered weakly to my feet. What mattered hunger? What mattered thirst? They were but incidents on the road to Babylon. Within me surged the soul of a free man going back to conquer his enemies and reward his friends. I thrilled with the great resolve.
George S. Clason
#60. We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.
George S. Clason
#62. Thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts.
George S. Clason
#63. Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?
George S. Clason
#66. Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a
George S. Clason
#68. We are more apt to change our minds when right than wrong.
George S. Clason
#69. You left them alone and they grew too strong for thee. Hadst fought them as a man, thou couldst have conquered them and been one, honored among thy townspeople. But thou had not the soul to fight them and behold thou hast gone down until thou art a slave in Syria.
George S. Clason
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