The Richest Man in Babylon was first published nearly a Century ago. Often, I found that title resting across street book stalls. However, nowadays, rich lessons and preaching are so high, I never thought to pick a title related to finance about which I knew nothing. I would believe what is written and because of no financial training perhaps I won't find one such book worth reading.
I buy books when their title appeals to me, something like a mathematical symbol, a scientific word, or maybe fusion of technology in management. While walking across streets nearby where there was nothing much left to do for me, I stumbled upon a street side book shop, asked the price and the vendor was selling it for 100 bucks. I thought OK, lets see what is inside this book, maybe I would find it boring but let's see.
I burnt out 100 bucks and to my surprise I read the entire book in a three day gap. I am a novice in finance. Long back I bought a domain name FinanceBazaar.Online just in the hope perhaps someday I will build a website related to finance management, that would be helpful to common people like me who don't understand finance.
This was born from the times when I was looking for a home to buy and every private was ready to pay any amount of loan. But one question was in my mind why no banker is asking me for repayment capacity. Indeed home thought was postponed for the future for obvious reasons.
And here is my suggestion to everyone who can understand literature written in simple words, if you are novice in finance, or you think you know everything about finance because you have a degree in the same or you are expert in those excel sheets, Read once The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason.
Perhaps you know many things about finances but your learning will not be complete without reading this book.
The Richest Man in Babylon teaches you ways to live life. The fiction has documented well the human stories of those times. Finance is an integral part of life, its one pillar, build your own, Hack Gaps.
The Richest Man in Babylon is easy to understand by one and applicable to all including established finance experts.
