Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich Quotes

“Wattles is quite adamant that the lazy in mind won’t succeed, so his book is asking quite a lot of you. It wants you to become a ‘mastermind’ and to gain mastery over your internal conversation and your subconscious beliefs. It is no mean feat. But if you can gently bring your mind back to the way that you should be thinking, you will soon find that good things come to you – and it won’t be unexpected as you will start to expect that the world will move to make your dreams come true.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“You can vote with your eyes and ears and refuse to listen to, or read, mainstream news coverage that is negative and scare-mongering. Keep your energy pure with positive information.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“There is no greater gift than thinking that the entire creative cosmos is on your side and is working toward your happiness.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Beyond that, you also need to practise daily and continuous gratitude for your present life. This keeps the connection with the divine clear and strong. You need to ensure you behave fairly with everyone you have dealings with and you need to ensure you give everyone more in ‘use-value’ than you take from them.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“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.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Huna, Hawaiian Shamanism, contains the belief that every time you criticize something, you create tension in your body and, over time, you can make yourself ill with this tension. The way around it is to compliment what you honestly can. If you can only see flaws and imperfections around you, that will be your focus and dissatisfaction your reward but if you see the beauty and love in all things, the more content and happy you will be.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Fill your eyes and head with images of money well-spent and you’ll soon be thinking of ways to spend your fortune to create new and ever-more-beautiful things.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Man must form a clear and definite mental image of the things he wishes to have, to do, or to become; and he must hold this mental image in his thoughts, while being deeply grateful to the Supreme that all his desires are granted to him.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“You cannot project to others the idea that you are successful or wealthy if you don’t believe it yourself. Get into a Muhammad Ali frame of mind; as he famously said, ‘I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.’ In other words, you need to think and act like you’ve already achieved your goal in order that people will treat you that way. And when people treat you as a success you’ll find it easier to achieve that success. By thinking confidently you therefore create a virtuous circle of achievement”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. Will Smith, actor”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“You can only access creative thought when you are relaxed and healthy. You can only be relaxed and healthy when you are not overworked or stressed.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Get geeky about it – ensure you are the one that people go to when they have a question about your industry. Keep yourself the most knowledgeable person you know on it. This will help you not only succeed today but will future-proof you against redundancies as you will be well-known within your industry and will enable you to get another job quickly.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Wattles says you can get rich doing anything but it is always best to be paid lots for doing what you love. We are all born with a special talent and we can tap into it to make the business of getting rich that much easier.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“If you start to spiral into doom and gloom and incorrect ideas about your ability to achieve your goals, you sever the link with the creative force that will make your dreams come true. You have to stay positive and one of the surest ways of doing so is to praise as much in your current life as you can.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Generally you’ll find that it is these people who also talk down the economy and bang on about how expensive everything is – avoid them like the plague. Most of all, don’t become one of them.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Remember, like attracts like, so if you would be rich, you have to think rich, talk rich, act rich. Only then can you turn your dream of being rich into reality.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“As the driver of your consciousness you have the power to accept a thought as true and helpful or reject it as untrue and unhelpful. But it is always important to note that the thought has occurred to avoid your subconscious petulantly bringing it up again and again.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Warren Buffett didn’t take his rejection by Harvard Business School to heart because, as he says, ‘I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.’ Don’t assume that other people are right about you and you are wrong; only you know what you’re truly capable of. Luckily Fred Astaire had already learned to think positively and ignore the negative when he received this famously unfavourable review of a screen test, ‘Can’t sing. Can’t act. Balding. Can dance a little.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“If you believe, as Wattles requires you to, that there is a formless substance that is intelligent and wants to increase life by giving you everything you want, it would be good to be linked to it intimately in order to impress upon it your desires. You can only maintain that link by gratitude – it is just how it works.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“the more you think about the good in life, the more you attract good things to you.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Every time you hand over a note in payment, say a silent au revoir to your note and mentally (as in ‘in your head’, not crazy) ask it to return to you with more of its kind. While your note isn’t conscious, this little ritual will ensure you respect and notice money as it comes and goes – and that will attract it towards you more.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“All you have to do is be very clear about what it is that you actually want. That isn’t as easy as it sounds. Sometimes we’re so confused and conflicted about our lives that we don’t know what we want. When you’re in this state of confusion, your best bet is to stop thinking about what you don’t want (‘I don’t want to bust a gut working 12 hours a day’) and think positively about what you do want (‘I only want to work four hours a day, doing something I love’). You can only create something you want, you can’t banish something you don’t want – it would leave a vacuum that you would need to fill, so best you fill it first and the undesirable aspects of your life will fall away.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Don’t sabotage yourself by ignoring the fledgling opportunities as they arise. If you meet a person who might be useful to you, don’t drop his card in the trash thinking that if he is fated to help, he’ll do so. It’s like that old joke about a devout man who is drowning, rejecting the help of life guards, a dolphin and a rescue helicopter in order to show God he has faith that God will save him. When he gets to heaven, bitterly complaining about being dead, God says ‘I sent you life guards, a dolphin, even a rescue helicopter, what more could I have done?’ So don’t abandon all personal responsibility, just work diligently, safe in the knowledge that the universe is about to throw you a lifeline to riches.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Thinking and fretting about how to pay your bills will not make them disappear, but concentrating on the idea that you have enough in the bank to not only pay your bills but also have anything you want, whenever you want, will give you your desired outcome.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“Conversely if you think that you are blessed, lucky, always fall on your feet, are chosen for success, are destined to bathe in champagne (what a waste) and sup the nectar of the gods, then it will be so. You must just think it clearly and with conviction.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“If J.K. Rowling had given up after her first 12 rejections there would be no Harry Potter and she wouldn’t be richer than the Queen of England. If The Beatles had believed the record company that said, ‘the Beatles have no future in show business’ there’d have been four fewer mop-topped millionaires. And if the 65-year-old Colonel Sanders had decided to retire after losing his first business and having his secret recipe rejected by a rumoured 1009 potential restaurant partners, there’d be a whole lot less finger lickin’ chicken going round.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic

“The ranks of the rich and successful are filled with those who refused to let one failure stop them.”
― John Middleton, Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich: A modern-day interpretation of a personal finance classic