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Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Getting Rich

Self-Help, Money and Success

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Language
English
First published
1910
Reading time
99 minutes
Chapters
18 chapters

About this book

Wallace D. Wattles wrote this short manual in 1910 for readers who, as he put it, need money first and philosophy later.

He claims that getting rich follows definite laws: a clear picture of what you want, steady faith, gratitude, and doing every task in an efficient way. Its ideas about the power of thought later inspired many popular books and films. Read it as a window on early twentieth-century American optimism, and judge its promises for yourself.

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 have, so…

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Chapters

18 chapters
  1. Preface.2 min
  2. Chapter I. The Right to Be Rich.5 min
  3. Chapter II. There Is a Science of Getting Rich.6 min
  4. Chapter III. Is Opportunity Monopolized?6 min
  5. Chapter IV. The First Principle in the Science of Getting Rich.8 min
  6. Chapter V. Increasing Life.8 min
  7. Chapter VI. How Riches Come to You.8 min
  8. Chapter VII. Gratitude.5 min
  9. Chapter VIII. Thinking in the Certain Way.6 min
  10. Chapter IX. How to Use the Will.7 min
  11. Chapter X. Further Use of the Will.7 min
  12. Chapter XI. Acting in the Certain Way.8 min
  13. Chapter XII. Efficient Action.6 min
  14. Chapter XIII. Getting Into the Right Business.6 min
  15. Chapter XIV. The Impression of Increase.6 min
  16. Chapter XV. The Advancing Man.6 min
  17. Chapter XVI. Some Cautions, and Concluding Observations.6 min
  18. Chapter XVII. Summary of the Science of Getting Rich.3 min

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