num_pages: 4
description: The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason provides financial advice through a collection of parables. George S Clason is best known for writing a series of informational pamphlets about being thrifty and how to achieve financial success. He started writing the pamphlets in 1926, using parables that were set in ancient Babylon. Banks and insurance companies began to distribute the parables and the most famous ones were compiled into the book The Richest Man in Babylon. It is this book which has etched the name of George S Clason into the history books and has provided generations of readers not just an inspirational classic for reading pleasure but sound practical principles of financial discipline. This is the most famous of his treasured works. The Richest Man in Babylon is a chapter sketch.
language: English
title: The Richest Man in Babylon
titlecomplete: The Richest Man in Babylon
genres: Audiobook, Personal Finance, Self Help, Finance, Economics, Money, Personal Development, Classics, Nonfiction, Business
ratings_count: 185442
publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.