Quotes from George S. Clason

MEN OF ACTION ARE FAVORED BY THE GODDESS OF GOOD LUCK     The Five Laws of Gold     A bag heavy with gold or a clay tablet carved with words of wisdom; if thou hadst thy choice, which wouldst thou choose?     By the flickering light from the fire of desert shrubs, the sun-tanned faces of the listeners gleamed with interest.     The gold, the gold, chorused the twenty-seven.

there is no chain of disasters that will not come to an end.

Yet, who can measure in bags of gold, the value of wisdom?

That what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.

Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.

a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill

Entre más sabiduría tenemos, más podemos ganar. El hombre que busca aprender más de su oficio será ricamente recompensado

him who keepeth and spendeth not a certain part of all his earnings, shall gold come more easily. Likewise, him whose purse is empty does gold avoid.

Every gold piece you save is a slave to work for you. Every copper it earns is its child that also can earn for you. If you would become wealthy, then what you save must earn, and its children must earn, that all may help to give to you the abundance you crave.

A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter

Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.

This, my students, was the first cure I did discover for my lean purse: For each ten coins I put in, to spend but nine.

My new home was much to my liking.

how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do not buy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you can pay out of the rest and still have enough for food and charity and penance to the gods.

This I do to prove to thee, my father, of how much greater value I consider thy wisdom than thy gold. Yet, who can measure in bags of gold, the value of wisdom? Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it, but with wisdom, gold can be secured by those who have it not, as these three bags of gold do prove.

Hay muchas cosas que me gustan, pero nada reemplaza al trabajo".

A part of all I earn is mine to keep.

I say to you that just as weeds grow in a field wherever the farmer leaves space for their roots, even so freely do desires grow in men whenever there is a possibility of their being gratified. Thy desires are a multitude and those that thou mayest gratify are but few.

I tell you, my students, a man's wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse and keepeth it always bulging.

That night I was so excited over my success I could hardly sleep

This, then, is the sixth cure for a lean purse. Provide in advance for the needs of thy growing age and the protection of thy family.

This, then, is the third cure for a lean purse: to put each coin to laboring that it may reproduce its kind even as the flocks of the field and help bring to thee income, a stream of wealth that shall flow constantly into thy purse.

As the months went by

ACTION will lead thee forward to the successes thou dost desire.