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The Science of Getting Rich

Wallace D. Wattles

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1. Page ch. 1, para. 1. WALLACE D. WATTLES.
2. Page "THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH", para. 1. THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH BY W. D. WATTLES Author of “New Science of Living and Hea
3. Page "CONTENTS", para. 1. CONTENTS
4. Page 5. PREFACE. This book is pragmatical, not philosophical; a practical manual, not a treat
5. Page 6. The reader who would dig to the philosophical foundations is advised to read Hegel an
6. Page 9. CHAPTER I. The Right to be Rich. Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact
7. Page 10. The man who owns all he wants for the living of all the life he is capable of living
8. Page 12. We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and deny
9. Page 14. It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normal man or w
10. Page 15. CHAPTER II. There is a Science of Getting Rich. There is a Science of getting rich, a
11. Page 17. Studying the people who have got rich, we find that they are an average lot in all re
12. Page 19. Also, we have seen that it is not a matter of environment. Location counts for someth
13. Page 20. No one is prevented from getting rich by lack of capital. True, as you get capital th
14. Page 23. CHAPTER III. Is Opportunity Monopolized? No man is kept poor because opportunity has
15. Page 24. At different periods the tide of opportunity sets in different directions, according
16. Page 26. No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches; there is more than
17. Page 28. No man, therefore, is poor because nature is poor, or because there is not enough to
18. Page 30. You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches; it is a fact which I shall dem
19. Page 31. CHAPTER IV. The First Principle in the Science of Getting Rich. Thought is the only p
20. Page 32. Every thought of form, held in thinking Substance, causes the creation of the form, b
21. Page 35. First, we assert that there is one original formless stuff, or substance, from which
22. Page 37. I have said that men get rich by doing things in a Certain Way; and in order to do so
23. Page 39. This power can only be acquired by getting hold of the basic fact which is behind all
24. Page 42. CHAPTER V. Increasing Life. You must get rid of the last vestige of the old idea that
25. Page 44. The One Living Substance must be subject to this inherent law of all life; it is perm
26. Page 46. You want to get rich in order that you may eat, drink, and be merry when it is time t
27. Page 48. You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, bu
28. Page 50. Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory and permanent; they ar
29. Page 52. There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original
30. Page 53. CHAPTER VI. How Riches Come to You. When I say that you do not have to drive sharp ba
31. Page 55. Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are a
32. Page 57. If so, the whole matter will be as much to that man’s advantage as it is to yours. Do
33. Page 59. All that there is of possibility is seeking expression through men. God wants those w
34. Page 61. I recall now the case of one student who was told that he must get in mind a clear pi
35. Page 63. CHAPTER VII. Gratitude. The illustrations given in the last chapter will have conveye
36. Page 65. If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmo
37. Page 67. But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in t
38. Page 69. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all t
39. Page 71. CHAPTER VIII. Thinking in the Certain Way. Turn back to chapter VI., and read again t
40. Page 73. It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set apart special time
41. Page 75. Live in the new house, mentally, until it takes form around you physically. In the me
42. Page 77. The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but accord
43. Page 80. CHAPTER IX. How to Use the Will. To set about getting rich in a scientific way, you d
44. Page 82. To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself. When you know what t
45. Page 83. But you can check all this by starting a negative impression in the Formless Substanc
46. Page 85. Do not spend your time in charitable work, or charity movements; all charity only ten
47. Page 87. The only way in which poverty will ever be banished from this world is by getting a l
48. Page 89. CHAPTER X. Further Use of the Will. You cannot retain a true and clear vision of weal
49. Page 91. You should interest yourself in the world’s becoming rich. Think of the riches the wo
50. Page 93. You can aim at nothing so great or noble, I repeat, as to become rich; and you must f
51. Page 95. You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if
52. Page 97. Wherever the spirits of the dead may be, they have their own work to do, and their ow
53. Page 99. CHAPTER XI. Acting in the Certain Way. Thought is the creative power, or the impellin
54. Page 101. Do not try to “project” your thought in any mysterious or occult way, with the idea o
55. Page 103. By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. Whatever
56. Page 105. Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment b
57. Page 107. If you are an employee, or wage earner, and feel that you must change places in order
58. Page 110. CHAPTER XII. Efficient Action. You must use your thought as directed in previous chap
59. Page 112. If there is something that may be done to-day, and you do not do it, you have failed
60. Page 114. The cause of failure is doing too many things in an inefficient manner, and not doing
61. Page 116. Do, every day, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.
62. Page 119. CHAPTER XIII. Getting into the Right Business. Success, in any particular business, d
63. Page 121. You can get rich in ANY business, for if you have not the right talent for it you can
64. Page 123. You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the busi
65. Page 125. There is a mind which knows all there is to know; and you can come into close unity w
66. Page 127. CHAPTER XIV. The Impression of Increase. Whether you change your vocation or not, you
67. Page 129. You are a creative center, from which increase is given off to all. Be sure of this,
68. Page 131. Take an honest pride in doing this, and let everybody know it; and you will have no l
69. Page 133. Look out for the temptation to seek for authority, to become a “master,” to be consid
70. Page 135. CHAPTER XV. The Advancing Man. What I have said in the last chapter applies as well t
71. Page 137. What is now needed is a demonstration of the science of life from the pulpit. We want
72. Page 138. But do not do this merely with the idea of currying favor with your employer, in the
73. Page 141. If a few thousands of its employees would enter upon the Certain Way, the steel trust
74. Page 143. CHAPTER XVI. Some Cautions, and Concluding Observations. Many people will scoff at th
75. Page 145. But remember that your thought must be held upon the creative plane; you are never fo
76. Page 147. Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a po
77. Page 149. That is the way every seeming failure will work out for you, if you keep your faith,
78. Page 152. CHAPTER XVII. Summary of the Science of Getting Rich. There is a thinking stuff from
79. Page 154. The creative energy works through the established channels of natural growth, and of
80. Page 155. Elizabeth and William E. Towne teach it, too. They are the editors and owners of THE
81. Page 155. Transcriber’s Notes: Punctuation has been made consistent. Variations in spelling and