The Science of Getting Rich

by Wallace D. Wattles

And you can only get what is yours by giving the other man what is his.

I have what is theirs. So they must have whats mine.

thought and personal action must be combined.

You cannot act in the past, and it is essential to the clearness of your mental vision that you dismiss the past from your mind.

do not spend time in the present taking thought as to the best course in possible future emergencies; have faith in your ability to meet any emergency when it arrives.

Optimism

You cannot act where you are not; you cannot act where you have been, and you cannot act where you are going to be; you can act only where you are. Do not bother as to whether yesterday's work was well done or ill done; do today's work well.

Do not cast about seeking some new thing to do, or some strange, unusual, or remarkable action to perform as a first step toward getting rich.

Use your present business as the means of getting a better one, and use your present environment as the means of getting into a better one. Your vision of the right business, if held with faith and purpose, will cause the Supreme to move the right business toward you; and your action, if performed in the Certain Way, will cause you to move toward the business.

You can advance only be being larger than your present place; and no man is larger than his present place who leaves undone any of the work pertaining to that place.

The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.

In the animal world, evolution is caused by excess of life.

How so?

You can never know all the combinations which Supreme Intelligence is making for you in the world of things and of things and of human affairs; your neglect or failure to do some small thing may cause a long delay in getting what you want.

This is exactly the mistake of proud scientists

Every act can be made strong and efficient by holding your vision while you are doing it, and putting the whole power of your faith and purpose into it.

Remember that successful action is cumulative in its results.

forth. Contemplate your picture in your leisure hours until your consciousness is so full of it that you can grasp it instantly.

But to possess in a well-developed state the faculties required in your particular vocation does not insure getting rich.

Desire is a manifestation of power. The desire to play music is the power which can play music seeking expression and development; the desire to invent mechanical devices is the mechanical talent seeking expression and development.

You are not obliged to do what you do not like to do, and should not do it except as a means to bring you to the doing of the thing you want to do.

Do not be afraid to make a sudden and radical change if the opportunity is presented, and you feel after careful consideration that it is the right opportunity; but never take sudden or radical action when you are in doubt

There is never any hurry on the creative plane; and there is no lack of opportunity.

No one else is going to beat you to the thing you want to do; there is enough for all.

Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.

The normal desire for increased wealth is not an evil or a reprehensible thing; it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

Convey the impression of advancement with everything you do, so that all people shall receive the impression that you are an Advancing Man, and that you advance all who deal with you.

Do not boast or brag of your success, or talk about it unnecessarily; true faith is never boastful.

Words will not be necessary to communicate this feeling to others; they will feel the sense of increase when in your presence, and will be attracted to you again.

Take an honest pride in doing this, and let everybody know it; and you will have no lack of customers.

Beware of the insidious temptation to seek for power over other men.

The desire to rule for selfish gratification has been the curse of the world.

We want preachers who can not only tell us how, but who in their own persons will show us how.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.

But do not do this merely with the idea of currying favor with your employer, in the hope that he, or those above you, will see your good work and advance you; it is not likely that they will do so.

Do not try to more than fill your present place with a view to pleasing your employer; do it with the idea of advancing yourself.

God cannot help helping you, if you act in a Certain Way; He must do so in order to help Himself.

God in the sense of human race/economy

Individuals may enter upon the Certain Way at any time, and under any government, and make themselves rich; and when any considerable number of individuals do so under any government, they will cause the system to be so modified as to open the way for others. The more men who get rich on the competitive plane, the worse for others; the more who get rich on the creative plane, the better for others.

You are concerned with doing today's work in a perfectly successful manner, and not with emergencies which may arise tomorrow; you can attend to them as they come.

That is the way every seeming failure will work out for you, if you keep your faith, hold to your purpose, have gratitude, and do, every day, all that can be done that day, doing each separate act in a successful manner.

Spend most of your leisure time in contemplating your vision, and in cultivating gratitude, and in reading this book.

He must give to every man a use value in excess of the cash value he receives, so that each transaction makes for more life;

exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.