The 56 Quotes from the Book

"The Science of Getting Rich"


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  1. There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praise worthy.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  2. The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way; those who do things in this Certain Way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  3. You may be the poorest man on the continent, and be deeply in debt; you may have neither friends, influence, nor resources; but if you begin to do things in this way, you must infallibly begin to get rich.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  4. If getting rich is the result of doing things in a Certain Way, and if like causes always produce like effects, then any man or woman who can do things in that way can become rich.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  5. Getting rich is not dependent upon your engaging in some particular business, but upon your learning to do things in a Certain Way.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  6. 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.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  7. Men get rich by doing things in a Certain Way; and in order to do so, men must become able to think in a Certain Way. A man's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  8. To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease, or to think riches when in the midst of appearances of poverty, requires power; but he who acquires this power becomes a MASTER MIND. He can conquer fate; he can have what he wants.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  9. Since belief is all important, it behooves you to guard your thoughts; and as your beliefs will be shaped to a very great extent by the things you observe and think about, it is important that you should command your attention.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  10. You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  11. Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  12. After once forming the thought, have the most absolute and unquestioning faith that what you want 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.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  13. First, you believe that there is one Intelligent Substance, from which all things proceed; second, you believe that this Substance gives you everything you desire; and third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep and profound gratitude.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  14. Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. Having received one gift from God, they cut the wires which connect them with Him by failing to make acknowledgment.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  15. The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  16. If your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in Formless Substance will be strong and continuous; the movement of the things you want will be always toward you.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  17. The value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  18. The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  19. To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things. On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  20. The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention. We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  21. The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  22. He who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain a living faith; and without a living faith you cannot get rich by the creative method.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  23. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  24. Many people fail to impress Thinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and misty concept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  25. When you try to impress your wants upon Substance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you must know what you want, and be definite.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  26. All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  27. The methods herein set forth are for people whose desire for riches is strong enough to overcome mental laziness and the love of ease, and make them work.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  28. Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  29. See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time; see yourself as owning and using them. Make use of them in imagination just as you will use them when they are your tangible possessions.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  30. When you know what to think and do, then you must use your will to compel yourself to think and do the right things. That is the legitimate use of the will in getting what you want--to use it in holding yourself to the right course. Use your will to keep yourself thinking and acting in the Certain Way.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  31. Use your mind to form a mental image of what you want, and to hold that vision with faith and purpose; and use your will to keep your mind working in the Right Way.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  32. The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly you will get rich, because you will make only POSITIVE impressions upon Substance; and you will not neutralize or offset them by negative impressions.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  33. Doubt or unbelief is as certain to start a movement away from you as faith and purpose are to start one toward you. It is by not understanding this that most people who try to make use of "mental science" in getting rich make their failure.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  34. Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have had them, do not think of them at all. Do not tell of the poverty of your parents, or the hardships of your early life; to do any of these things is to mentally class yourself with the poor for the time being, and it will certainly check the movement of things in your direction.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  35. You cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  36. Thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action... man must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  37. Your thought makes all things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want; but your personal activity must be such that you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches you. You are not to take it as charity, nor to steal it; you must give every man more in use value than he gives you in cash value.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  38. This vision, received from you, sets all the creative forces at work IN AND THROUGH THEIR REGULAR CHANNELS OF ACTION, but directed toward you.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  39. When things reach you, they will be in the hands of other men, who will ask an equivalent for them. And you can only get what is yours by giving the other man what is his. Your pocketbook is not going to be transformed into a Fortunata's purse, which shall be always full of money without effort on your part.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  40. Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for results; if you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin now.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  41. Hold with faith and purpose the vision of yourself in the better environment, but act upon your present environment with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all your mind.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  42. Hold the vision of yourself in the job you want, while you ACT with faith and purpose on the job you have, and you will certainly get the job you want.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  43. Your vision and faith will set the creative force in motion to bring it toward you, and your action will cause the forces in your own environment to move you toward the place you want.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  44. Every act can be made strong and efficient by holding your vision while you are doing it, and putting the whole power of your FAITH and PURPOSE into it.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  45. Do, every day, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner. In saying that you must hold your vision while you are doing each act, however trivial or commonplace.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  46. You will get rich most easily in point of effort, if you do that for which you are best fitted; but you will get rich most satisfactorily if you do that which you WANT to do.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  47. A day or two spent in contemplating the vision of what you want, and in earnest thanksgiving that you are getting it, will bring your mind into such close relationship with the Supreme that you will make no mistake when you do act.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  48. Mistakes come from acting hastily, or from acting in fear or doubt, or in forgetfulness of the Right Motive, which is more life to all, and less to none.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  49. Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry. Remember that in the moment you begin to hurry you cease to be a creator and become a competitor; you drop back upon the old plane again.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  50. Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and begin to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  51. The man who is certain to advance is the one who is too big for his place, and who has a clear concept of what he wants to be; who knows that he can become what he wants to be and who is determined to BE what he wants to be.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  52. Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater opportunity.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  53. The more men who get rich on the competitive plane, the worse for others; the more who get rich on the creative plane, the better for others.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  54. Whenever you do fall into old ways of thought, correct yourself instantly; for when you are in the competitive mind, you have lost the cooperation of the Mind of the Whole.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  55. No matter how tremendous an obstruction may appear at a distance, you will find that if you go on in the Certain Way it will disappear as you approach it, or that a way over, though, or around it will appear.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles

  56. Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself, your affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or discouraging way. Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.
    ~ Wallace D. Wattles