"FOR THE WISDOM OF MONEY…"

One of the most enlightening books I have ever read is “the richest man in Babylon” by George S. Clason. Never have I until that time being interested about the wonderful things you can do with money and that money can do for you if you know how to deal wisely with your ‘gold’.

For so many, money has become their master; their ultimate goal in life is to make more and more money. However, reading the book has changed my perspective. I now know that while the poor work to make money, the rich make money work for them.

Wealth is not in the amount of money you possess; wealth is in your ability to create it at will, over and over again. For me, the wisdom of wealth is more beneficial than having wealth alone. It is better that a man be equipped with the wisdom of money than for him to possess large estates and know not how to tame his money.

Ideally, you can’t truly know the value of wealth until you have work for it, in sweat and in blood. Wealth is not in winning lotteries, that is luck and ‘lucky’ wealth will not last. Only a man with the wisdom of money can turn ten thousand naira into an estate of inestimable value. People with ‘lucky’ money usually end up wasting it because they have very little or no value at all for money. The wisdom of money includes one’s ability to invest his money and reap profitably.

Better a wise man with little money than a fool with an estate of doom. Take heed, for the wisdom of money supersedes its possession.