Summary Of The Richest Man In Babylon By George S Clason

“The Richest Man in Babylon”, by George S Clason, is a short novel depicting the various stories and parables that are proposed by various characters to provide a series of axioms and primitives for an individual to increase one’s fiscal status. Over the course of the novel, the reader is introduced to a story teller who will therein lecture on an experience that led the character to have a more wise and careful view of money, how to acquire it and, most importantly, how to maintain it such that they did not revert to destitution. After being provided with a short historical lecture on the extravagance of Babylon, the stories initiate with a friendly pair debating about their lack of wealth and the stupendous success of their friend Arkad. The duo conclude that to aid in their future success, they are to confer with Arkad about their precarious fiscal situation and how to alleviate its burden. Arkad welcomingly offers assistance in the form of a story of how he became successful and laid the foundation for the “seven cures for a lean purse” that appear later in the form of a lecture mandated by the Babylonian king.
Is during that meeting and the following lectures that the “cures for a lean purse” are given. The

Dabasir starts his story as a man living far above his means and, as such, constantly borrowing and acquiring debt for any and all. Eventually, his means are gone, his family has left him and he finds himself abroad where he is captured and sold into slavery. It is in captivity that Dabasir becomes friendly with his slaver’s last wife. She convinces Dabasir to determine whether or not he has the soul of a slave or that of a free man. Having chosen the later, Dabasir makes his escape that the leisure of the last wife, back to Babylon where he confronts his debtors and makes good on his