The Science of Getting Rich

by Wallace D. Wattles

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich.

Whatever he can say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mind and his soul.

There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.

Every hour and moment you spend in giving heed to doubts and fears, every hour you spend in worry, every hour in which your soul is possessed by unbelief, sets a current away from you in the whole domain of intelligent Substance.

Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor.

it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it. Desire is a manifestation of power.

there is plenty of time.

Wherever you find a boastful person, you find one who is secretly doubtful and afraid.

People will go where they are given increase;

it would have to give its workingmen more opportunity, or go out of business.

Summary Of The Science Of Getting Rich

The man who wishes to get rich must spend his leisure hours in contemplating his Vision,