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Nearly a century ago, George S. Clason boiled down what it takes to get rich in his 1926 personal finance classic "The Richest Man in Babylon." - and the steps are surprisingly simple.
He articulates the steps through a collection of amusing parables based in the wealthiest city of the ancient world: Babylon.
We scoured Clason's pages to come up with some of his best insights about investing, success, and accumulating and growing your personal wealth: