Book Publishing Specialists
 |
The Science of Getting Rich or Financial Success Through Creative Thought Iceni Books, January 2002 ISBN: 1587360942
Trim: 5 x 8 Business & Economics
|
Description
As the title of Wattles’ work suggests, this book is first and foremost a guide to acquiring wealth. However there is more to life than achieving financial success, and that is why the author also treats the successful life in general. After making the fundamental claim that everyone has the right to be rich, he puts forward his principles for practical action, aimed to “make the most of yourself.” These principles include acting efficiently and getting into the right business, as well as expressing gratitude. The single most important principle stated by the author is creativity. Throughout the book he focuses on the power of thought, and shows how to use willpower for achieving goals. Pointing out that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy, he advocates the purposeful direction of thought and action.
According to Wattles, the philosophy of the book is based on a monistic viewpoint of the universe, which is also the foundation of oriental philosophy. Because all of life is connected, the author discourages competition and urges the reader to create value instead. By getting rich in a creative way, no harm is done to other people; on the contrary, others will benefit from the inspiration that comes from the successful person. Arguing strongly in the tradition of John Ruskin that there is no wealth but life, Wattles with his work has created the ancestor of many a modern self-help and personal finance book.
Back Cover
Finally the original version of Wallace D. Wattles’ all-time classic, which has shown generations of readers the way to riches, is available again for YOU to rediscover. The principles put forth by the author as far back as the year 1910 are as valuable today as they were then. The foundations of a science never change.
Learn from this astonishing book how to:
- Increase Your Life
- Make Riches Come to You
- Use Your Will
- Apply the Law of Gratitude
- Think and Act in the Certain Way
- Get into the Right Business
The Science of Getting Rich or Financial Success Through Creative Thought is a clear-cut, practical guide not only to acquiring riches, but also to advancing personal growth. With its timeless principles, it is the forerunner of every other personal finance and self-help book.
Claim your right to be rich and live your life to the fullest potential!
Excerpt
Chapter 1. The Right to Be Rich
WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money, for to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.
A man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and society is so organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor of things, therefore, the basis of all advancement for man must be the science of getting 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.
Man’s right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment, or, in other words, his right to be rich.
In this book, I shall not speak of riches in a figurative way, to be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No man ought to be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more. The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life, and every man should have all that can contribute to the power, elegance, beauty, and richness of life, to be content with less is sinful.
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. Life has advanced so far, and become so complex, that even the most ordinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live in a manner that even approaches completeness. Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of becoming, this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature, we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be. Success in life is becoming what you want to be, you can become what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can have the free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. To understand the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential of all knowledge.
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 praiseworthy. The man who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the man who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.
There are three motives for which we live, we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other, all are alike desirable, and no one of the three—body, mind, or soul—can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression. It is not right or noble to live only for the soul and deny mind or body, and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny body or soul.
We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and denying both mind and soul, and we see that real life means the complete expression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul. Whatever he can say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mind and his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.
Man cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing, and warm shelter, and without freedom from excessive toil. Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.
He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship. To live fully in mind he must have intellectual recreations, and must surround himself with all the objects of art and beauty he is capable of using and appreciating.
To live fully in soul, man must have love, and love is denied expression by poverty.
A man’s highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves, love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man. It is in the use of material things that a man finds full life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul. It is therefore of supreme importance to him that he should be rich.
It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich, if you are a normal man or woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies. If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to yourself, to God and humanity, for you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.
Contents
| I. | The Right to Be Rich | |
| II. | There is a Science of Getting Rich | |
| III. | Is Opportunity Monopolized? | |
| IV. | The First Principle in the Science of Getting Rich | |
| V. | Increasing Life | |
| VI. | How Riches Come to You | |
| VII. | Gratitude | |
| VIII. | Thinking in the Certain Way | |
| IX. | How to Use the Will | |
| X. | Further Use of the Will | |
| XI. | Acting in the Certain Way | |
| XII. | Efficient Action | |
| XIII. | Getting into the Right Business | |
| XIV. | The Impression of Increase | |
| XV. | The Advancing Man | |
| XVI. | Some Cautions, and Concluding Observations | |
| XVII. | Summary of the Science of Getting Rich |
Also by author:
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||
- © 1999-2013 Wheatmark, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 1760 E River Rd Ste 145 Tucson, Arizona 85718
- 1-888-934-0888