The Science of Getting Rich

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars | 10,114 ratings

Price: 8.71

Last update: 01-24-2025


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Wallace D. Wattles was an American "New Thought" writer who wrote this amazing little book in 1910. It caused a sensation then, and continues to be popular today. In fact, Rhonda Byrne said that part of her inspriation for her best-selling book and film The Secret came from this book.

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  • Jenna Talia
    5.0 out of 5 stars JUST READ IT, NOW!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2025
    This was a helluva read for me. I actually chose to read it twice back to back, it deserves it to really cement the principles being taught. It’s also a quick and easy read if you create the time to read it. I was able to read it twice within 3 weeks. This book is akin to “think and grow rich” and “the secret” if you read this you should definitely read those as well. This is definitely a book that I will have to read once a year moving forward. The author mentions “as a man thinketh” by James Allen so I bought that too and will definitely get around to reading it. Overall, I would recommend this book. I enjoyed it, timeless classic wisdom.
  • Mark Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's well worth the read. I have seen the results in my life.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2025
    A clear and concise path to wealth without the fluff. The more people can apply this to their lives, the better our world will be.
  • BP
    5.0 out of 5 stars Such a good book!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2024
    This book is a little gem hidden for your finding.

    It was written in 1910, but is 100% applicable to today. It’s principle based.

    Short, to the point and beneficial.

    Highly recommend!
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    BP
    5.0 out of 5 stars Such a good book!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2024
    This book is a little gem hidden for your finding.

    It was written in 1910, but is 100% applicable to today. It’s principle based.

    Short, to the point and beneficial.

    Highly recommend!
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  • Niq007
    4.0 out of 5 stars Diamonds dropped
    Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2024
    Listen this book was super cheap but the details was worth sooooo much more. Thanks Mr
    Wattles for this book. Life & Mind changing.
  • Margie Candy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
    Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2024
    Although a bit cryptic, and enquiring concentration, this book is filled with treasures. It's an excellent book, i love it.
  • ShaunK
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Cases For the Justifiable Pursuit of Wealth
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2012
    There are many people with highly religious backgrounds who have a strong hangup over the gaining of wealth. It seems money and wealth is such an evil, such a thorny and precarious path toward ones spiritual progress, that we dare not pursue it lest it "become our God" and we be damned to hell. In the battle that we must overcome with such thinking, I've rarely found a more concise and reasonable, even scripturally sound piece making the case for the Godly pursuit of wealth than that described here by Wattles a hundred years ago.

    Whether you're one who is religious in background, or not, and whether you have agonizing inner conflicts dealing with your "justification" of wealth, this book will be manna from heaven for your mind and heart in resolving your turmoil regarding that God-given inner drive to expand and become more---even more "rich."

    The globalists and elitists in this world bankroll and finance wicked and murderous regimes and ideologies, such as Marxism, all for a nefarious purpose. (Buy and read the must have "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin with it's mammoth bibliography and explicit research to document for your the banker backed Bolsheviks etc.) These elitists are monopolists, they thrive and see everything in a "competitive" mode. They are selfish, and though fulfill a function, they will pass away as this grand creation called earth is "going to God" rather than "going to the devil" as Wattles puts it. Wealth is abundant. It is unlimited in supply, and there are not finite resources, but rather infinite resources for humanity to prosper.

    The elitists bankrolled vast propaganda, including the "Population bomb" and myth of population explosion. They breed mass hysteria about "scarcity" and limited ability of the earth to support humanity. They are eugenicists who long to see humanity eliminated down in numbers. Their writings, as documented in such films as Alex Jones' "End Game" which is available for free viewing on-line, are full of this. Wallace Waddles blows into the weeds all corrupt sophistry that would convince people that humanity is threatened with overpopulation, and that the earth is teetering on scarcity and "un-sustainability."

    On a religious note, one theologian said in the 1970's, and I agree with him:

    "With the help and blessings of the Lord, the free people of the United States and the free world can and will face tomorrow without fear, without doubt, and with full confidence. We do not fear the phony population explosion, nor do we fear a shortage of food, if we can be free and good. The Lord has declared, `... the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare. ...' "

    Waddles agrees, stating every family on earth could have built a palace the size of the capitol in Washington DC., and clothed with the finest clothing created from just the resources of the United States alone. I agree, and I find God is the author of such abundance and productivity if we would only believe it and ignore the "haters" as one lecturer refers to these "elitists" who hate witnessing their fellow man live in abundance and wealth.

    Waddles appears to be tied into quantum physics well before the term even existed. I am stunned as he describes the "thinking" substance of which all things are made. We humans, by power of thought, can have and assert energy, whether good or evil, upon his basic "intelligence" or substance of which all things are made.

    In short, Wattles gives a message that is the antithesis to the message given out by the Statists, the big bankers of our day and time, the "monopolists" and "money barons." The unlimited creation of wealth for our personal advancement in developing who we are is possible if we will bring forth the faith to do it. God creates worlds with faith by merely speaking his word, and the elements, or the "thinking substance" obeys his command. "Ye are gods" is a scriptural phrase, and we are like God in our capacity to think and learn to use this tremendous power of thought, to create and influence the very "thinking substance of matter" as God does. There is indeed a whole science to it, and physicists are coming up with profound discoveries that begin to have the reader take serious the depth and scope delivered to us a hundred years ago by Wattles.

    Become everything you can become. Glorify and thank God for it. Become magnificent. Become Rich. Advance in all areas of culture, health, learning, the arts and sciences. Let the creation of wealth move through you. Uplift yourself and surroundings, not in a "competitive" economic outlook, but in a "creative" one that neither steals nor plunders another for limited resources===for unlimited is the supply of abundance that we are to bring forth by this Godly power to create.

    Those with hangups toward obtaining wealth have found a great text to alter their mind and belief systems, and one which I find is no contradiction in scripture, but rather I feel the opposite.
  • CarolAnnie71
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
    Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2024
    This book is wonderful & very insightful.
  • Charli
    3.0 out of 5 stars The Basics of the Law of Attraction
    Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2022
    This book has been recommended to me as fundamental to my mindset work around money by multiple coaches & teachers in my life.

    I understand that many people who teach about mindset found this book, now over 100 years old, either on their own journey or after reading The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, as she refers to this book as the foundation as well.

    Here’s the thing: this book is now outdated — in both the social references (Wallace refers to the “end of Rockefeller’s time”) and in the language. It’s a 2-hour read, and even for someone who has read thousands of books, I had to read it visually while listening to the audible version to get through it.

    Yes, the book is cheap & you can find it at the library easily. But if you want the fundamentals of the Law of Attraction go with a more current book - like You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero - where you get simple, straightforward steps to rewiring your thoughts, visualization and the importance of gratitude so you can create a life you love.

    The one piece I did take away from this book was the idea that God/the Universe/your higher power WANTS you to have want you want and to be rich even more than you do.

    You can only live your best, most abundance, fulfilling life when you have the money to do so with the way society is set up today — and that is the only way you can also best serve others & your highest good.

    One final note — the audiobook would get 1-star, not 3, from me. The narrator skipped over parts that were emphasized and written twice, added in anecdotes from the Bible (ugh) and replaced “person” with “man” (along with other random words) so I lost my place while reading along repeatedly. I would NOT recommend.

    I’m glad I got through it though, so I can skip recommending it to anyone else!

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