The name of George Clayson was glorified not so much by the book "The Richest Man in Babylon", as the monetary philosophy created on its basis. Its relevance has not diminished over the years. A successful publisher and businessman was America's best cartographer.
George Samuel Clayson is spoken of both as a successful writer, and as a successful businessman, and as an excellent cartographer. However, there is an opinion that the author is still an excellent hoaxer who skillfully manipulates people's desires.
Road to success
This position is taken by scientists who are convinced that the author’s book was not created on the basis of deciphers of parables found during excavations, but completely invented by Clayson, that is, a work of art.
The biography of the future celebrity began in 1874. A child was born in the small town of Louisiana, Missouri on October 7. His family was one of the first to settle there.
After school, the boy continued his education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. There is no information about his chosen specialty anywhere. In the 1890s, the graduate completed his studies.
In 1898, Clayson enlisted in the army. He participated in the Spanish-American War. After her graduation, nothing was known about the young man until George began his first business. There are suggestions that he was trying to make a military career.
Business and creativity
In 1906, in Denver, he founded The Clason Map, a travel guide company. The publisher began his business by issuing atlases for all states of the country at very modest prices. Each copy represented a detailed pointer with a folding card in the corporate green cover.
The guidebooks also mentioned the main state institutions and places of mining. At the same time, the release of pocket city plans was being established.
In 1923, a successful entrepreneur began producing more expensive tourist atlases. The bulk of the company's products went to the market. By order of the largest publications of the city, individual editions were printed. The main feature of such atlases was their orientation on motorists.
Both the distance between the settlements and the quality of the roads were indicated. This technique was quickly adopted by the competitors of the businessman. The format remained the gold standard for a long time.
The company has successfully developed, and its founder proceed to create notes. They subsequently formed the basis of books. At first, small articles were published in various publishing houses. Around 1930, Clayson created "Clason Publishing". The Clason Map closed in 1931. The publishing house lasted until 1937.
New plans
George soon entered into an agreement to publish his writings with Financial Education. He wrote works in demand. Themes were diverse. Due to the fact that no one was seriously engaged in Clayson's biographical research for a long time, it was not possible to establish all his works.
Among the first publications are called published in 1916, "Description of the free lands of Colorado. A manual for the settlers." The publication was timed to the fortieth anniversary of the state and the attraction of new residents. An impressive amount of work was supplemented by color photographs and maps.
In 1925, co-authored with one of Denver's most famous and respected ladies, Ida Gregory, a book was published, a non-verbal communication manual, "Reading Signs: How to Understand Friends, Relatives, Business Partners, and Random Acquaintances."
Clayson’s very interesting research work, Catholics, Jews and the Ku Klux Klan: What They Believe and Why Conflict, dates back to 1926.
In 1930, readers received the main work, "The Richest Man in Babylon." The book brought together parables intended for employees of insurance companies and banks, published separately for four years.
Confession
The collection immediately gained fame. During the life of the author, the work was repeatedly reprinted. Its names changed: "The Babylonian Course of Financial Success", "Gold Ahead." In 1924, an adaptation was made for the modern language.
Many contemporaries called the skillful advertising move information about the fact that cuneiform texts, which served as the basis for writing, Clayson himself deciphered. No one had any evidence of this fact, because the information was considered the marketing move of the stores.
The writer himself called himself a translator. He offered readers a testimony pointing to a connection with archaeological finds in the Clay Plates chapter. The information is given in the form of letters from an employee of the English archaeological department Alfred Shrewsbury.
Messages addressed to the head of the expedition inform about financial difficulties, waiting for the start of work on decoding the plates, then it says about reading the find and improving the situation. Subsequently, it turned out that such an archaeologist had never been.
Therefore, fans are sure that the author in this way put his own thoughts into the manuscript. The basis for this was the enthusiasm of the society of the twenties and thirties of ancient civilizations. However, even the art form of presentation did not diminish the usefulness of the advice. The techniques offered by the writer turned out to be universal. They existed outside of time.
