Quotes from George S. Clason

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.

an old tongue loves to wag. And when youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years.

My admiration stranger within our gates, who hesitates not to speak the truth.

Remember, work, well-done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.

the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course.

Cuantos mas conocimientos adquiramos, mas dinero ganaremos. El hombre que espera aprender mejor su oficio sera recompensado con creces

Te voy a decir estas cosas que quieres saber porque me estoy convirtiendo en un viejo, y a una lengua vieja le gusta menearse.

You pay to everyone but yourself. Dullard, you labor for others.

The eons of time have crumbled to dust the proud walls of its temples, but the wisdom of Babylon endures.

el sol que brilla ahora es el mismo que brillaba cuando nació tu padre y el mismo que brillará cuando fallezca el último de tus nietos.

Every gold piece you save is a slave to work for you.

Every fool must learn,' he growled, 'but why trust the knowledge of a brickmaker about jewels? Would you go to the breadmaker to inquire about the stars?

if you have the intelligence to grasp the truth I offer you.

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.

If you have not acquired more than a bare existence in the years since we were youths, it is because you either have failed to learn the laws that govern the building of wealth, or else you do not observe them.

his very good intentions may bring him into difficulties.

La suerte puede sonreirnos si aprovechamos las ocasiones que se presentan

Because of your wise advice I have enjoyed a day of rest.

No man's family can fully enjoy life unless they do have a plot of ground wherein children can play in the clean earth and where the wife may raise not only blossoms but good rich herbs to feed her family.

The First Cure — Start Thy Purse to Fattening

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared

it will be wasted by one unable to use it wisely and leave him without his treasure, and leave the borrower with a debt he cannot repay?

Wise are thy words, my friend, responded the buyer. Good luck fled from procrastination in both these tales. Yet, this is not unusual. The spirit of procrastination is within all men. We desire riches; yet, how often when opportunity doth appear before us, that spirit of procrastination from within doth urge various delays in our acceptance. In listening to it we do become our own worst enemies.

You were indeed fortunate that Algamish made of you an heir.