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Do you know the saying When the student is ready, the teacher appears? That is how it was for me and George Clason's book The Richest Man in Babylon.

Maybe you have heard of the book and never read it. Well, the book is worth your time and energy. You may not believe that a book written 85 years ago would have much to say to a modern person, especially about something so volatile as wealth building. In the course of a 144 pages, however, Clason shares a few simple parables about saving, wise investing and wealth building.

One of the things I like about the book is its age and the fact that it is reaching back to a much earlier time period. When people are stressed and uncertain, it is easy to think that nothing like this has ever happened before. They think Our grandparents never had to worry about debt. And that is of course, not true. Ever since money was invented people have had trouble managing it. Certainly people in the 1920s didn't have credit cards to worry about, but most stores, like grocery stores and clothing stores, extended credit to local families, so it was just as easy to get into debt then as it is now.

Clason does a great job of telling simple little stories about ancient Babylonians to illustrate his points about spending, saving and investing. The language has a King James bible feel to it, but for me that added to the charm. There is a modernized version, if the language is a block for you. Do not let the stilted language keep you from the wisdom of this little book. I enjoyed all of the stories. My favorite is probably The Luckiest Man in Babylon, but they are all good and the wealth building principles are easy to understand.