The Success Canon

Money

Older wealth books

Older books on money and work. The year is the year of the copy linked on the page.

These are older than the twentieth-century seminar circuit. The year is the year of the copy linked on the page.

  1. 01 The Art of Money Getting P. T. Barnum Barnum's short list of rules for earning and keeping money.
  2. 02 The Gospel of Wealth, and Other Timely Essays Andrew Carnegie · 1900 Carnegie's essays on wealth, including the argument that a rich person should give surplus money away with care.
  3. 03 Acres of Diamonds Russell H. Conwell · 1915 Conwell's famous lecture, arguing that the opportunity people chase is often already around them.
  4. 04 A Message to Garcia Elbert Hubbard · 1899 Hubbard's short preachment praising the person who carries out an assignment without stalling.
  5. 05 The Science of Getting Rich Wallace D. Wattles · 1910 Wattles's short book treating a way of thinking as a method for getting rich.
  6. 06 The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason · 1926 copy Clason's parables about saving, paying yourself first, and learning a skill.