The Science of Getting Rich published in 1910 is a
Timeless wisdom and a practical, step-by-step
prosperity program from a long forgotten classic.
To read online, click on any chapter below to go there.
Chapter 1: The Right To Be Rich
Chapter 2: There Is A Science of Getting Rich
Chapter 3: Is Opportunity Monopolized?
Chapter 4: The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich
Chapter 5: Increasing Life
Chapter 6: How Riches Come To Us
Chapter 7: Gratitude
Chapter 8: Thinking in The Certain Way
Chapter 9: How To Use The Will
Chapter 10: Further Use of The Will
Chapter 11: Acting in The Certain Way
Chapter 12: Efficient Action
Chapter 13: Getting Into The Right Business
Chapter 14: The Impression of Increase
Chapter 15: The Advancing Personality
Chapter 16: Some Cautions and Concluding Observations
Chapter 17: A Summary of The Science of Getting Rich
Appendix A: Support The Network
Appendix B: Get The Audiotapes
The Science of Getting and Being Rich books are practical manuals, not a treatise upon theories. The information is intended for use by men and women who desire FIRST to get rich without any guilt, then philosophize afterward.... Wallace says that the poverty-stricken (as well as the middle class) should feel guilty about not living up to their true potential as thinking creative human beings with dominion over self. No matter the beginnings, anybody can become rich from applying the Prosperity Principles It's especially treasured by those who desire specific value-productive results and who are willing to take the conclusions of science as a basis for action, without first going into all the research, testing, and processes by which the Prosperity Principles and conclusions were reached. … In gratitude, follow the guidebook that has proven for over a century to be safe and sure.
After reading Mr. Wattles' excellent work, it's easily realized that ALL the success and personal development literature since 1910 owes a great debt to The Science of Getting Rich... It also becomes clear why the last century has shown more lifestyle improvements than occurred during the last 2000 years of civilization... AND it will be clear WHY even greater improvements shall keep manifesting....
Mr. Wattles was born in the United States in 1860 and died in 1911... Although Mr. Wattles is most known because of his prosperity classic The Science of Getting Rich, he wrote several other books including: The Science of Being Great, The Science of Being Well, Making of the Man Who Can, Health Through New Thought and Fasting, several shorter manuscripts, plus a novel, Hellfire Harrison.
As we journey into the "old writings" it's quickly revealed that most of what is sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely RE-discovery of knowledge we have had for centuries... Learning about things not yet RE-discovered, requires reading old books to find the wisdom of our ancestors and the master keys that open doorways to our present and future nows... Another factor to consider in using information within the "old manuscripts" is that such has been applied for enough time to prove whether or not the knowledge "works" for generating results that are STILL desired.
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ABOUT EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO, a man I'd never met sent me a book I'd never heard of by a man who'd been dead nearly 90 years.
That little book changed my entire life. As I put into practice the principles you'll learn about in this book, the results were astonishing - and they began almost instantly and continue to this day.
When The Science of Getting Rich arrived in the mail that afternoon I immediately ripped open the package, sat down, and read it with an open mind - mostly because the title was just so intriguing.
And even though I must admit I found some of the old-fashioned language and some of the ideas in the first part a bit confusing, there was something about it that compelled me to reread those little confusing bits two or three times until I got it!
Once I did that, I couldn't stop reading until I'd read the whole thing!
Right away I began to put into practice what the book outlines ... and everything began to change. "Coincidences" happened - happy ones that led to connections with people ... that led to more connections ... that led to money beginning to flow toward me in increasingly larger amounts and from several sources, including new and unexpected ones.
And even though changing your habitual thinking is difficult and I'm still not as good at it as I intend to be, my businesses began to "click," my income doubled , then tripled, and continues to rise ... my cramped city apartment has given way to a spacious waterfront house... I've established rewarding new relationships with many generous, successful, wealthy people ... and opportunities to be, do, have, and give more continue to show up at my doorstep almost daily.
It's amazing - and wonderful.
Until this book arrived, nothing I had ever read or heard before had explained to me so clearly that there are universal laws at work regarding wealth and success and that if we'll just work with those laws - go with the tide instead of trying to swim against it (usually unknowingly) - the results we desire will begin to come to us. That if we will scientifically reproduce the causes of wealth, we will invariably reproduce the results.
Now, right off the bat author Wallace D. Wattles says that instead of questioning how these principles work, you'll need simply to accept them and begin to practice them. So I did that, even though as I read I did find myself resisting from time to time and thinking, "Well, I don't know if I can agree with that." But I'd already decided just to accept (at least temporarily) each premise as if I did thoroughly believe it.
By the time I finished the book I understood why he had included that warning. I see, some of what you'll read or hear will most likely challenge some of your previous thinking. That seems to be the case for most people. But keep on, and you'll soon see how Mr. Wattles beautifully builds each chapter on what he presents in the preceding ones. I think you'll find yourself saying - as I and many others have - "Oh, now I see why he said that. Now I see how it all fits together."
I believe, also, that you'll find it absolutely refreshing to know that to get rich by the method outlined here, it is essential that I embrace and practice what we all know as the Golden Rule ... that the daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you... and that by accomplishing your financial dreams through this method, everyone with whom I come into contact will also have more.
A far cry from the dog-eat-dog, claw your way to the top, anything for a buck mentality so many believe to be the only way to wealth.
Pay close attention to the message of this book with an open mind. Get a free copy of the entire printed version at The Science of Getting Rich Network website and read it... Print it out and give it to your friends.... Distribute it on your own website, if you like.... Join the Network and get the free weekly ezine to share in the insights and amazing experiences of others. Focus constantly on your own personal vision and share that vision with other like-minded people who are doing the same.
You WILL see results!
You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality. You are a person of infinite worth and unique possibility. Even if you don't think of yourself as a creative person, and even if you've failed before, and even if you think you've tried everything, open your mind to this book.
You've probably heard the saying, "When the student is ready, the teacher appears." That has certainly held true for me and many, many others, and perhaps you're ready, too - right now. If you're not yet where you desire to be in terms of income and your own personal success, the problem may not be what you're doing so much as how you're doing it. And that begins with how you think.
If you desire to change your life, you may just need to change your mind!
-Rebecca Fine
Olympia, WA
November, 1999
I've lightly edited the 90-year-old manuscript to accommodate modern readers. Unfortunately, though, there is as yet no graceful way in English to avoid completely the use of the masculine gender to represent all people, especially in working with such an old book. Luckily for us women, we have vast experience in reading ourselves back in - just as we have learned to dance backward! Where it does not interfere with the gracefulness of the writing, I have changed man to person, men to people, and mankind to humankind.
To Mr. Wattles' credit, although writing just after the turn of the 20th century, he makes it clear that The Science of Getting Rich applies equally to men and women alike. - Rebecca
Where possible this communication improvement process was expanded to be gender neutral, and as personalized into first person, as feasible…. Removal of communication obstacles. makes it FASTER and EASIER to access the Authentic Self and Creation Power Wisdom, internalize new information, and apply thoughts and actions essential to consistently manifest desire results of having Paradise On Earth....
To make it easy to identify WHICH Version is being worked with, the I-Message Version has the word BEING in its title...
Primary word exchanges: Replaced want with desire (want indicates "lack" to the brain). Replaced spend time with invest time. (Spend indicates waste. Invest indicates Return ON Investment.... Everybody receives the SAME AMOUNT of Time, it's HOW the time is invested and leveraged that makes the difference.)... Exchanged pronouns to be in a SELF-Talk format -- When appropriate replaced you with I or me; yourself with myself; they with us, we, our, et cetera…
THIS I-MESSAGE TEXT sets in motion a process that is so value-productively powerful that it must be shared with everybody on the planet... Thus, I'm doing my part by making THIS "I Message VERSION" available on the Internet, in Word Text, and verbally reading via Internet Conferencing....
The amazing book by Wallace D. Wattles has been in my library for many years, and on my computer in pdf format...
But ONLY AFTER converting the text to "I MESSAGES" did I become consciously aware that its practical application of Creation Power Wisdom offers the absolute perfect Captain and Crew Training Manual... (Captain - Crew refers to use of the Conscious - Subconscious)...
It's been a long adventure seeking the best primary Success Engineering HOW TO Guide Books for manifesting a Personal Paradise and Paradise On Earth... At long last 2 resources have proved themselves worthy by having stood the test of time for consistently producing desired results. These 2 resources are the Science Of BEING Rich adapted from writings by Wallace D. Wattles, and The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel. -- These resources integrated with brain-quadrant harmonizing activities created by Stuart Lichtman, provide powerful tools for consciously manifesting desired results.
After reading Mr. Wattles' excellent work, it's easily realized that ALL the success and personal development literature since 1910 owes a great debt to The Science of Getting Rich... It also becomes clear why the last century has shown more lifestyle improvements than occurred during the last 2000 years of civilization... AND it will be clear WHY even greater improvements shall keep manifesting....
Mr. Wattles was born in the United States in 1860 and died in 1911... Although Mr. Wattles is most known because of his prosperity classic The Science of Getting Rich, he wrote several other books including: The Science of Being Great, The Science of Being Well, Making of the Man Who Can, Health Through New Thought and Fasting, several shorter manuscripts, plus a novel, Hellfire Harrison.... Most of his writings are available from Cornerstone Publishing at the website URL http://cornerstonebooks.net/cgi-bin/clickthru.cgi?id=solutions
As we journey into the "old writings" it's quickly revealed that most of what is sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely RE-discovery of knowledge we have had for centuries... Learning about things not yet RE-discovered, requires reading old books to find the wisdom of our ancestors and the master keys that open doorways to our future...
Another factor to consider in using information within the "old manuscripts" is that such has been applied for enough time to prove whether or not the knowledge "works" for generating results that are still desired.
For more desired results and fuller application, PRINT the text, highlight vital information and make notes as they become conscious.
Through many websites, free downloadable e-book, audiobook, The Certain Way ezine, The Science of Getting Rich for Practical Geniuses Online Course, the discussion boards, teleclasses, live workshops, speaking engagements, and more... Many are dedicated to making Mr. Wattles' practical wisdom available to all.
THIS BOOK IS PRAGMATICAL, NOT PHILOSOPHICAL - a practical manual, not a treatise upon theories. It is intended for the men and women whose most pressing need is for money, who wish to get rich first, and philosophize afterward. It is for those who desire results and who are willing to take the conclusions of science as a basis for action, without going into all the processes by which those conclusions were reached.
It is expected that the reader will take the fundamental statements upon faith, just as he would take statements concerning a law of electrical action if they were promulgated by a Marconi or an Edison, and, taking the statements upon faith, that he will prove their truth by acting upon them without fear or hesitation. Every man or woman who does this will certainly get rich, for the science herein applied is an exact science and failure is impossible.
In writing this book in 1903 Wallace D. Wattles sacrificed all other considerations to plainness and simplicity of style, so that all might understand. The plan of action laid down herein was deduced from the conclusions of philosophy. It has been thoroughly tested, and bears the supreme test of practical experiment: It works.
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