The Science of Getting Rich

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

“There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.”                                                                                                        Wallace D. Wattles

1.The Right to be Rich
2.There is a Science of Getting Rich
3.Is Opportunity Monopolized?
4.The First Principle
5.Increasing Life
6.How Riches Come to You
7.Gratitude
8.Thinking in a Certain Way
9.How to Use the Will
10.Further Use of the Will
11.Acting in the Certain Way
12.Effective Action
13.Getting into the Right Business
14.The Impression of Increase
15.The Advancing Person
16.Some Cautions and Concluding Observations
17.A Summary of the Science of Getting Rich

“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 far, found neither the time, the means, nor the opportunity to go deeply into the study of metaphysics, but who want 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.”

These are the opening words by the author in the preface of the book. Although the book was first published back in 1910 the principles within the 17 chapters are timeless and, I’m sure, all will benefit by their application today.

In true synchronistic fashion I had only come across this writing a couple of weeks ago and learned only yesterday that Bob Proctor has a Science of Getting Rich program developed around the ideas contained in the book and that over the years he had based much of his work upon the contents.

Wattles emphasizes the need to take action and practice the principles to achieve your goals. This is a marvelous book and complements the training in Empower Network and the Big Idea Mastermind team very well. The journey is and individual one, but you can get around others who are making it themselves. As individuals there is more strength by being in a community with a shared vision and purpose.