The Science of Getting Rich (The Unabridged Classic by Wallace D. Wattles) (make money)

Partial Excerpts (antilibrary)

Preface

Preface

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 expected that the reader will take the fundamental statements upon faith

and, taking the statements upon faith, that he will prove their truth by acting upon them without fear or hesitation

Chapter 1: The Right To Be Rich

the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining (flourishing)

The man who owns all he wants for the living of all the life he is capable of living is rich; and no man who has not plenty of money can have all he wants.

There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul

Man cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing, and warm shelter

He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation

To live fully in soul, man must have love; and love is denied expression by poverty.

Chapter 2: There is A Science of Getting Rich

any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich

The getting of capital is a part of the process of getting rich; and it is a part of the result which invariably follows the doing of things in the Certain Way.

Chapter 3: Is Opportunity Monopolized?

NO man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken away from him; because other people have monopolized the wealth, and have put a fence around it. You may be shut off from engaging in business in certain lines, but there are other channels open to you

At different periods the tide of opportunity sets in different directions, according to the needs of the whole, and the particular stage of social evolution which has been reached

There is abundance of opportunity for the man who will go with the tide, instead of trying to swim against it.

So the factory workers, either as individuals or as a class, are not deprived of opportunity. The workers are not being "kept down" by their masters; they are not being "ground" by the trusts and combinations of capital. As a class, they are where they are because they do not do things in a Certain Way

The working class may become the master class whenever they will begin to do things in a Certain Way;

Chapter 4: The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich

THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance

Every thought of form, held in thinking Substance, causes the creation of the form, but always, or at least generally, along lines of growth and action already established

To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform. There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances

To look upon the appearance of disease will produce the form of disease in your own mind, and ultimately in your body, unless you hold the thought of the truth, which is that there is no disease; it is only an appearance, and the reality is health.

he who acquires this power becomes a MASTER MIND

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.

Chapter 5: Increasing Life

The universe desires you to have everything you want to have. Nature is friendly to your plans

It is essential, however that your purpose should harmonize with the purpose that is in All.

Never worry about the trusts and combines, and get anxious for fear they will soon come to own the whole earth

you are not seeking any thing that is possessed by anybody else; you are causing what you want to be created from formless Substance, and the supply is without limits.

Chapter 6: How Riches Come to You

you will not need to deal with them unfairly; you do not have to get something for nothing, but can give to every man more than you take from him.

When you rise from the competitive to the creative plane, you can scan your business transactions very strictly, and if you are selling any man anything which does not add more to his life than the thing he give you in exchange, you can afford to stop it. You do not have to beat anybody in business.

You can make your business do for your employees what this book is doing for you. You can so conduct your business that it will be a sort of ladder, by which every employee who will take the trouble may climb to riches himself

if you want a sewing machine, hold the mental image of it with the most positive certainty that it is being made, or is on its way to you. After once forming the thought, have the most absolute and unquestioning faith that the sewing machine is coming; never think of it, or speak, of it, in any other way than as being sure to arrive. Claim it as already yours

Chapter 7: Gratitude

THE illustrations given in the last chapter will have conveyed to the reader the fact that the first step toward getting rich is to convey the idea of your wants to the Formless Substance. This is true, and you will see that in order to do so it becomes necessary to relate yourself to the Formless Intelligence in a harmonious way.