Deep down I always knew there was some sizeable good sense
in the admonition: “Do not judge a book by its cover.” But stubbornly, I have
either neglected or ignored such goodly advice for the sake of my insistence on
“excellent quality and branding”.
For how do you get people interested in your book if you pay
little attention to how it’s presented and packaged? Surely, every man does
love a beautiful thing, as all that glisters is not gold; or so I thought, until
recently, that upon a particularly boring day I decided, against my worse judgement, to steal a peek of what
might lie within the pages of a poorly reprinted version of the book, The Richest Man in Babylon.
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| The Actual Copy In Question |
Quite unsightly was the paperback, and to look within was to
behold prints not fitting for my delicate eyes, but what great fortune, that on
that day my impetuously judgemental tendencies were nowhere to be found. For by God's favour I fell upon the glorious opportunity to learn from one of the
greatest and wisest manuals of finance.
Never have I seen in stark simplicity the blessed path to
monetary success. And above all, the most beautiful impression made on the
reader was that it's all “just” common sense. As in proffering one of seven cures
for a lean purse, the author states quite reasonably: “...put each coin to labouring that it may reproduce its kind even as
the flocks of the field and help bring to thee income, a stream of wealth that
shall flow constantly into thy purse”.
Yet the gems contained in this little volume aren’t really
common as they ought to be. For man is complicated. For if he weren’t so, his purse
would lack every reason to be empty. He would have his coffers filled with
enough gold to provide for his needs and that of his family and the world
around him.
Anyhow, however it is that just a few men have stumbled upon
these insights and used them and have become rich, the rest all stand
the chance to be counted rich and prosperous by doing as this few have done.
So, I have always believed that upon a certain stage in a
man’s maturity there is that familiar wisdom that settles upon his senses,
telling him that being one of great means is essentially necessary. It is in
this view that I have shared with you my encounter with The Richest Man In
Babylon, with the hope that your may read as I have read, to become enlightened
as I have become, in this very important matter of our finance.
Hence, let’s get
rich and do it well.
“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” –2Corinthians 8:9
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| A Well Packaged Version. You see what I mean? Lol |
