The Richest Man In Babylon 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. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

#3. I wonder idly how long i can go without sleep before I flip my shit and start running down the street in my underwear, hallicinating purple spiders.

Lauren Oliver

#4. Wealth that comes quickly, goeth the same way.

George S. Clason

#5. I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

Eleanor Brown

#6. Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible.

George S. Clason

#7. I don't care what other people say. The important pressure, you put on yourself. The pressure that others put on you? I ignore it.

Adolfo Cambiaso

#8. Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Sometimes I want to scream at him, Just let me go. Let me go. Let me breathe. So I can't sleep, and I'm angry. I feel as though we're having fight already, even though the fight's only in my imagination. And in my head, thoughts go round and round and round. And I feel like I'm suffocating.

Paula Hawkins

#10. Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

Bobby Fischer

#11. Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it.

George S. Clason

#12. Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

T. S. Eliot