Quotes from George S. Clason

Life is rich with many pleasures for men to enjoy

He must have compassion upon those who are injured and smitten by misfortune and aid them within reasonable limits.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.

From this day forth, I shall use his key. I shall start humbly as he started

There is abundance for all.

In case of default, those so bonded were sold into slavery.

The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded. If he is an artisan, he may seek to learn the methods and the tools of those most skillful in the same line. If he laboreth at the law or at healing, he may consult and exchange knowledge with others of his calling. If he be a merchant, he may continually seek better goods that can be purchased at lower prices.

It was a common custom for men to put themselves, their wives or their children up as a bond to guarantee payment of loans

Most of the city merchants were slaves. Many of these were in partnership with their masters and wealthy in their own right.

Nonsense," reproved Kobbi, "a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it. Arkad has an income that constantly keeps his purse full, no matter how liberally he spends." "Income, that is the thing

a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it. Arkad has an income that constantly keeps his purse full

a man's  wealth is not   in the purse he carries.

A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it. Arkad has an income that constantly keeps his purse full, no matter how liberally he spends.

Better a little caution than a great regret.

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.

I thought not that you would. But it is there and simple too. Just this: If thou desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

yet he did possess one of the vital requirements to increase his earnings. Within him was a strong desire to earn more

UNA PARTE DE LO QUE GANAS ES TUYA PARA QUEDARTE CON ELLA.

En aquellas cosas hacia las cuales dirigimos nuestros mejores esfuerzos, tenemos éxito.

Therefore, be not swayed by the fantastic plans of impractical men who think they see ways to force thy gold to make earnings unusually large. Such plans are the creations of dreamers unskilled in the safe and dependable laws of trade. Be conservative in what thou expect it to earn that thou mayest keep and enjoy thy treasure. To hire it out with a promise of usurious returns is to invite loss.

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.

WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT ADEQUATE PROTECTION

And when youth comes to age for advise he receives the vision of years. But too often does youth think that age knows only the wisdom of the days that are gone, and therefore profits not. But remember this, 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.

Where the Determination is, the Way Can Be Found