كتاب مذهل حقّا...خصوصا أنه أُلف في عشرينيات القرن الماضي ، لكنه حمل من النصائح ما جعله مفيدا في كلّ زمان ومكان


يتحدث الكتاب عن أغنى رجال بابل وأشهرهم أركاد ، إذ يحتوي قصصا تحفيزية عن كيفية تخلص هؤلاء من الفقر والعوز وكيفية استغلالهم للفرص التى سنحت لهم فأصبحوا من خلالها فاحشي الثراء ..
لقد انتشلوا أنفسهم من بحر الفقر إلى سفينة الغنى بالعمل والصبر

يعلمنا الكتاب طرقا للتغلب على الفاقة وهي تتمثل في التالي :

Rating: 3.0/5.0

Genre:
Nonfiction + Business

I picked up this one because I heard many good things about it. I might be a bit late because I feel the majority of the points and lessons discussed in this book are very familiar to me. I found it very interesting to see this book reads more like fiction. I feel this is good for someone who wants to read and know about all the basics in finance and economics in a simple easy way. One of the main tips that the author insisted on is saving 10% of whatever you earn, and then making that saved amount earn further by investing it wisely in something you are aware of. Don't invest your money in something you have no knowledge about or give it to someone to invest it in something he has not enough knowledge about.

“Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.”

Another piece of advice the author gives is to control the expenditure in different ways. One way is to own your own home instead of living in a rented property and paying the rent. Then there is an important tip of building yourself and your abilities because the more educated and experienced you are the higher will be the chance that you will earn more in the future.

The book is old, written a long time ago. Most of the lessons and advice are still very much valid until this day. But all this is definitely not enough to cover the complex economics of today. You will not find it covering everything that relates to our times. Do I recommend it? Well, yes but not alone. You need to read more books about finance and investments because basics alone are not enough for you to gain the knowledge and expertise that you aim for. I give The Richest Man In Babylon 3.0 stars out of 5.0.

“THE FIVE LAWS OF GOLD I. Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family. II. Gold labor the diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field. III. Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling. IV. Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those skilled in its keep. V. Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment.”

فكرة الكتاب في العائد المركب وقد أسماها إينشتاين بالأعجوبة الثامنة حيث أن الأرباح تتعاظم بسبب إعادة استثمارها لفترات زمنية طويلة.
كتاب مفيد للغاية ودائما ما أنصح به طلاب الجامعة وحديثي التخرج لأن البدء مبكرا بالاستثمار يحقق أهداف مالية كبيرة وغير متوقعة.

كتاب جيد جدا في "أسس" الإقتصاد وإدارة المال وشئون الحياة الشخصية
لذيذ وسهل في القراءة وتوصيل المعلومة بطريقة قصصية معقولة إلى حد ما .. مع التركيز على توضيح الدروس والنقاط والواجبات العملية حتى لا يغرق القارئ في القصة وينسى الهدف .. وتلك الطريقة جيدة جدا لمن أراد مراجعة الكتاب بسرعة بعد قراءته
أظنه أساس جيد لمن أراد أن يبدأ .. ومن بدأ سيحتاج المزيد بالتأكيد من القراءة بمزيد من التفصيل
أنصح بقراءته للمهتمين :)

قراءة ثانية مركّزة

ربيع الأول - 1446

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الكتاب جيد ومفيد حقا..
له مراجعة صوتية قادمة إن شاء الله..

شوال - 1438

#book-vipers-book-hunter: MAN

George S. Clason published a series of pamphlets beginning in 1926 with financial advice couched in Babylonian parables, which were later combined in book form and given the title, The Richest Man in Babylon. Very basic advice and somewhat dated and repetitious, but I can't help thinking that these 'rules' he put forth should be taught in schools as good advice for beginner's handling money.

Our financial advisor gave us two copies of this slim book for our daughters and their husbands and I slipped them into their Christmas stockings this past year. One read it and is following the advice closely, crediting it for their improved financial situation, while the other hasn't yet bothered to read it.

A great, brief book on how to manage personal finances and lead a financially stable life. The story of Babylonians and how they managed to master their financial skills make this book relevant to today's world. The recommendations are given in such a way that anyone from any financial background can apply them easily. Useful book! I wish I had read it when I was younger.

استحضار اكثر من رائع للحضارة البابلية يهدف الى ايصال مبادئ اساسية للكسب الشخصي للمال وادارته
على بساطة الافكار التي تم تقديمها الا انها في غاية الاهمية
القاعدة المهمة: ادخر 10% من مدخولك واستثمره

الكتاب جميل في اسلوبه القصصي واستحضاره للتاريخ .. وهو كذلك مفيد للغاية

الكتاب : أغنى رجل في بابل – مترجم إلى اللغة العربية
المؤلف : جورج كلاسون
عدد الصفحات : 155 من الحجم الصغير
الناشر مكتبة دار جرير
السلام عليكم
في احد اجتماعات المجموعة الابداعية ، عرض اخي صلاح سالم كتاب ” أغنى رجل في بابل” وتحمست جدا لقرائته … قرأت الكتاب قي ثلاث ايام فقط !! اندمجت بالقراءة، الكتاب متعلق بالمال والثروه ويشرح لك عن طريق قصص كيف تجمع مال وتكون من الاثرياء، بطل القصص هو (أركاد)، الحكيم وهو أغنى رجل في بابل يعلم الناس في مجالسه كيف يستثمرون اموالهم ويضاعفوها، يعلم أركاد الناس الطرق السبع للتغلب على المحافظ الخاوية:
1- إبدأ في ملء محفظتك.
” من كل 10 عملات تضعها في محفظتك، اخرج 9 فقط للاستخدام، وستجد ان محفظتك بدأت بالانتفاخ فجأه، ووزنها المتثاقل سيشعرك بالتحسن وسيجلب لك الرضى والارتياح “
2- تحكم في نفقاتك.
” لا تخلط بين النفقات الضروريه والرغبات الشخصية “
3- اعمل على انماء ثروتك.
” وظف كل ما لديك من مال كي ينتج ربحا حتى يساعدك في تكوين مورد مالي ثابت خاص بك “
4- حافظ على ثروتك من الضياع.
” حافظ عليها عن طريق استثمارها فقط عندما تضمن الامان لرأس مالك، وعندما يمكنك استرداده اذا مارغبت، وعندما يمكنك ان تحصل على ارباح جيدة “
5- اجعل منزلك استثمارا مربحا.
” امتلك منزلا خاصا “
6- اضمن دخلا ثابتا في المستقبل.
” وفر من اجل احتياجاتك الشخصية في مرحلة الشيخوخه ولحماية عائلتك”
7- زد من قدرتك على الكسب.
” لابد ان يدفع الانسان كل ما عليه من ديون مستحقه باقصى سرعة ممكنة، والا يشتري شيئا لا يملك المقدرة على دفع المقابل له”
هذه هي النقاط السبعة ويوجد تفصيل اكبر بالكتاب … وقصص اكثر


الرابط من موقعي http://www.h-alhashash.com/?p=355

"If determination is there, ways can be found"

This classic poetic map, helping us to discover and reap the treasure of finances, teaches through tales one can only imagine to be too idealistic to be true at the face of it. Cardinal rules, conjured even before the birth of Christ, will take you through the world of trade, money and gold in ever so entertaining ways beyond one's wildest imaginations.

The rules have stood the test of time as it has been documented at the end of the book that how the archaeologists who found the clay tablets upon which these rules were documented practiced these rules and were able to gain control of their finances in ways incomprehensible to them before. They used these ways and were surprised to see the results as they simultaneously built on their corpus, returned back their loans with due diligence and also comfortably carried on with their daily needs being met periodically without a hitch.

Now the burning question- What the hell are these rules which even after 8000 years hold ground? Well there are umpteen of them in the book but some of them one must be exposed to so as to feel the golden rub off:p so here comes:-

1) You should always pay yourself no less than one tenth of whatever you earn. I know some of you might be feeling disappointed but that's true guys. Life is simple and coming to simple conclusions only will bring in sense to your life. The first question that I had in my mind after reading this was that if I'm getting the whole income, what is the meaning of paying one tenth of whatever I earn to myself? Well to clear the smoke on that, your expenses on things such as rent, food, objects etc don't count as a payment to yourself because they go as they come. These things should be accounting to 70% of your salary. There is an assumption here that everyone must be having some or the other obligations to fulfill so 20% should be kept for that whereas the last 10% should be kept only for you.

2) Control thy expenditures. There is a big difference between your burning desires and fleeting wishes that keep you enslaved on a daily basis. These are the very vicious wishes that leads one's boat to the rocks of loss and remorse. This is a very difficult part as differentiating between the two is the first step towards controlling your expenditures. One way to evaluate between the two is to imagine whatever you wish for and ask yourself how would your life be affected if this wish is not fulfilled and if the answer is 'nothing much' then it is not worth pursuing.

3) Multiply thy gold. If your money doesn't earn money for you then it is speaking to you in a language you don't understand. Consider money as your employee which will give birth to kids which will further work to produce more kids unless you have a big army such that in-Toto they become river of gold for the rest of your life. Money kept idle is a wasted ammunition and as we all know idle money looses its value faster than we know.

Fickle Fate, as many people claim, is the name of the game in earning money but whosoever has fallen into the clutches of this goddess has seldom lived to tell the story. Opportunity my friends is a gorgeous goddess who pays visit to all but the problem is she is impatient and doesn't like to waste her time for those who are unprepared. The time has come to ask oneself- "Do we have the soul of a slave or of a free-man?" at the end of the day we are nothing but the choices that we have made:)

Horribly written and hard to follow. Maybe would have been a good read in 1927.

This book teaches timeless financial wisdom in the form of fictitious parables set in ancient Babylon. I found the stories entertaining and the financial lessons as valid today as they were in Babylon millennia ago.

There’s nothing groundbreaking here, but that doesn’t lessen the value of the simple financial basics: pay yourself first (at least 10%), live on less than you earn, get advice from financially competent people, and put your money to work through cautious investing.

The book recommends enjoying life, and not working so hard to amass wealth that you become miserly. It says that to succeed, you must have strong, definite desires and ambitions, not vague dreams. The story of the goddess of good luck teaches that you must always be prepared for opportunity, because luck rewards men of action.

I first heard about this book on the Open for Business podcast. When an investment manager recommended it too, I decided to read it. I'm glad I did!

My favorite chapter was Seven Cures for a Lean Purse. Here are the lessons:

• Start thy purse to fattening: save 10% of all you earn
• Control thy expenditures: budget 90% of earnings to cover necessities and luxuries
• Make thy gold multiply: put money to work by investing
• Guard thy treasure from loss: seek financial advice and make wise investments
• Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment: own your home to decrease living costs and increase enjoyment (compared to renting)
• Ensure a future income: plan for the future financial well-being of yourself and family
• Increase thy ability to earn: increase your skills through study and practice