893: The Richest Man in Babylon
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Chapter 2 of "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George Samuel Clason, published in 1926
https://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-Magic-Story/dp/1939438632/
https://archive.org/details/richestmaninbaby00geor/mode/2up
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| 0:00.0 | Try to get across that slice it just wider the post. |
| 0:05.0 | How have they done enough? |
| 0:07.0 | Can they pull it out the bag? |
| 0:09.0 | Does the ref have a clue? |
| 0:11.0 | When you're shouting at the screen, blow your whistle! |
| 0:16.0 | There's no feeling like live TV. |
| 0:19.0 | However you watch, a TV licence is your must-have pass to over 400 live TV channels |
| 0:25.0 | and it also funds the BBC, such TV licence. |
| 0:30.0 | In Old Babylon, there once lived a certain very rich man named Arkad. |
| 0:36.0 | Far and wide he was famed for his great wealth. |
| 0:39.0 | Also was he famed for his liberality. |
| 0:43.0 | He was generous in his charities. |
| 0:45.0 | He was generous with his family. |
| 0:47.0 | He was liberal in his own expenses. |
| 0:50.0 | But nevertheless, each year his wealth increased more rapidly than he spent it. |
| 0:55.0 | And there were certain friends of younger days who came to him and said, |
| 0:58.0 | you Arkad are more fortunate than we. |
| 1:01.0 | You have become the richest man in Old Babylon while we struggle for existence. |
| 1:06.0 | You can wear the finest garments and you can enjoy the rarest foods while we must be content |
| 1:12.0 | if we can clothe our families in raiment that is presentable and feed them as best we can. |
| 1:18.0 | Yet once we were equal, we studied under the same master we played in the same games |
| 1:24.0 | and in neither of the studies nor the games did you outshine us. |
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