The Science of Getting Rich: The Original Classic (Capstone Classics)

by Wallace D. Wattles

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“When you get out of the competitive mind you will understand that you never need to act hastily.

No one else is going to beat you to the thing you want to do; there is enough for all. If one space is taken, another and a better one will be opened for you a little farther on; there is plenty of time.

When you are in doub...

the more who get rich on the creative plane, the better for others.”

GRATITUDE

The whole process of getting in tune with universal law, Wattles says, can be summed up in one word: Gratitude.

“The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.”

By contrast, focus on what is bad or squalid in your life, at what you don’t have, and you start to go backwards.

Gratefulness for what you do have opens the doors to more.

This is because gratitude connects us with the Power that gives and sustains life, and the closer we live to this Source of all wealt...

putting in its place an emphasis on creativity, cooperation, giving and gratitude.

GETTING RICH AND BEING GREAT

“there are no ‘common’ people”,

“There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.”

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and above all think for themselves.

“Man is formed for growth, and he is under the necessity of growing. It is essential to his happiness that he should continuously advance.”

Wanting more, getting more, and being more is nothing to be ashamed of, but simply how things are meant to be in our universe.

a person who consciously attunes themselves to this force cannot help but become great, since they become a vehicle for the perfect expression of divine intention.

He makes the point that all great people exhibit ‘unwavering faith’, and are fully aware that the chief challenge of life - and its chief success - is to be able to replace fear with faith on a daily basis.

Most of the problems we see, Wattles argues, are the result of people simply being unwilling to sit alone and think things through.

kind of concentrated thought,

by poverty and the fear of poverty.

“Man’s greatest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves.”

never for a moment did he lose confidence in the power of the master Intelligence to right every wrong and to give to every man and woman his or her share of the good things of life.

He saw himself as a successful writer, a personality of power, an advancing man, and he began to work toward the realization of this vision

In the last three years he made lots of money,