"Gold Obeys the Wise"

 Forget luck. The "secret" to building a fortune is older than your great-great-grandfather—it's carved in clay tablets from ancient Babylon.

After spending years building a business empire, and I can tell you that modern finance is just a dressed-up version of the "Seven Cures" from George S. Clason's classic, The Richest Man in Babylon. People complicate wealth, but it comes down to simple, unchanging laws.