{"id":33266,"date":"2019-04-04T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=33266"},"modified":"2019-03-20T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:28:08","slug":"the-richest-man-in-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/the-richest-man-in-babylon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Richest Man in Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 30 years ago I was sitting in my dentist&#8217;s chair and he showed me a small paperback book. Purchasing and reading this seriously changed my financial outlook and spending habits. The book was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451205367\/cooltools-20\">The Richest Man in Babylon<\/a> by George S. Clason. It got me to looking at my credit card debt and inspired me to take advantage of simple financial opportunities available to me such as 401Ks. The book was first published in 1926 and is written as a parable and is very basic and simple, but still as relevant today as it was nearly 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Goodreads says: &#8220;The Success Secrets of the Ancients \u2014 An Assured Road to Happiness and Prosperity&#8221; This didn&#8217;t happen overnight and it didn&#8217;t turn me in some millionaire entrepreneur. What it did was get me to pay off the credit cards and cut them up. I started salting money away in a 401k and ultimately even in a savings account. I learned the secret of the golden shekels. I&#8217;m not rich, but now retired am comfortable. I look at my retired co-workers and see that I am as well off as any and better than most and I feel much of that is due to this little book<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic guide to thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33269,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33266\/revisions\/33269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}