Six books.
Hidden Secrets of Money + Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver
Mike Maloney.
Open Watch →Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. George S. Clason · The Richest Man in Babylon
The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them. Robert Kiyosaki · Rich Dad Poor Dad
Every fiat currency in history has eventually returned to its intrinsic value, which is zero. Mike Maloney · Hidden Secrets of Money
Three teachers, one observation.
The law of giving runs through prosperity literature in different forms. Its core: what you receive is downstream of what you give, and giving freely is what keeps the channel open. Hoard, and the flow narrows in both directions.
Wattles names it most directly. Chapter fourteen of The Science of Getting Rich, titled The Impression of Increase, gives a single working rule for every transaction: deliver more in use value than you take in cash value.
See that you give them a use value greater than the cash value you are taking from them. Wallace D. Wattles · The Science of Getting Rich, Ch. 14
Hill encodes the same principle as going the extra mile — render more and better service than the wage you are paid for. After two decades interviewing wealthy people at Andrew Carnegie's request, he found the habit was in place long before the wealth arrived.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. Napoleon Hill · Think and Grow Rich
Kiyosaki, asked what his rich dad taught him about money, answered: if you want something, give it first. The specific practice his rich dad used was tithing — giving ten percent of every dollar earned to causes he believed in. Not as charity; as a way of staying in the flow.
Become so absorbed in giving that you forget there is anything to receive. Wallace D. Wattles · The Science of Getting Rich
The practice is older than any of these books. Dāna in Buddhism. Zakat in Islam. Tithing in the Hebrew tradition. The same observation, repeated across millennia.