While much of the content is very reasonable it should be taken with a grain of salt considering it was originally created as marketing for banking and insurance companies. Obviously it is better for their business models if everyone invests in their businesses through savings accounts, insurance, and banking investment programs. Savings accounts (and often investments) can pay less than the cost of inflation, especially counting in the banking costs. Savings and investing are naturally good ideas, but stable goods such as land are often the best investment.

Other resources in similar vein but modernized are the Get Rich Slowly and I Will Teach you to be Rich websites.

In particular, Get Rich Slowly definitely resonates with me. The blog is not well organized for someone who just jumps in, but Forbes has a good getting-started reading list:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2012/04/19/six-year...

The site:

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/

Start with this article:

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/09/28/money-is-more-a...

Disclaimer: I'm not rich and I don't apply most of the tenets above !!! but at least I'm self-aware (which I guess is a step 1 to recover, I hope).

I know (not well anymore) someone who owned a business (multiple I think) who's said that same saying and I'm sure I've read it somewhere else. I always assumed it meant: when you have a business treat yourself as an employee and pay yourself so that you don't use all the money (on business needs is all I can think of: staplers, paper, etc) and can pay your bills.

I might have misunderstood it or whatever but I always thought it made a bit of sense since you need to take some money home at the end of the day.

that's part of it. You then need to put that money to work earning more money by investing it.