The Science of Getting Rich

QHB's 10 Points of Focus and Summaries

The Science of Getting Rich 10 Points:

1. Right to Be Rich: Everyone has the right to be rich, meaning to have the resources for a full and fulfilling life. It's not about greed, but about self-actualization.

2. Science of Getting Rich: There are underlying principles that govern wealth acquisition. By following these principles, you can achieve riches with certainty.

3. Opportunity Abundant: Opportunities exist for everyone. Don't waste time competing; focus on creating your own wealth through focused action.

4. Thinking is Key: To get rich, you must first change your mindset. Develop a strong belief in the three core principles: formless thinking substance, thought creates reality, and the power of focused thought.

5. Desire for More Life: The desire for wealth stems from the natural urge for a richer life. It's about expressing your full potential, not just about material possessions.

6. Gratitude is Essential: Gratitude fuels the process. By expressing thankfulness for what you have and what you're creating, you strengthen the Law of Attraction.

7. Become a Creator: Don't compete for existing resources. Instead, use your focused thinking to create the wealth you desire from the formless substance.

8. Visualization with Purpose: Hold a clear mental image of what you want to achieve. Combine this vision with a strong purpose and unwavering faith to bring it to life.

9. Take Action: Belief alone isn't enough. Take consistent and efficient action towards your goals, starting with what you can do today.

10. Success Breeds Success: Every successful action builds upon the last. Focus on daily progress, efficient actions, and unwavering faith in your ability to achieve your vision.

QHB's Selected Book Quotes and Summaries

*** WW = Wallace D. Wattles (The Author)

=== PUBLISHER’S PREFACE ===

# “A person can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.” - Publisher

=== Introduction ===

# “By taking these statements on faith, he will prove their truth by acting upon them without fear or hesitation. Every man or woman who does this will certainly get rich.” - WW

=== Chapter 1. THE RIGHT TO BE RICH ===

# “A person’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 unfolding - in other words, his right to be rich.” - WW

# “Success in life is becoming what you want to be.” - WW

# “There are three motives for which we live: we live for the body, the mind, and the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other.” - WW

# “It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich. … If is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the science of getting rich because it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies.” - WW

=== Chapter 2. THERE IS A SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH ===

# “There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches. Once a person learns and obeys these laws, he will get rich with mathematical certainty.” - WW

# “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 accidently, get rich. Those who do not do things in this certain way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor.” - WW

# “Because like causes must produce like effects, you will get rich even if you do not have any friends, influence, or other resources. If you have no capital, you can get capital. If you are in the wrong business, you can get into the right business. If you are in the wrong location, you can go to the right location. You can do so by beginning in your present business and in your present location to do things in a certain way which causes success.” - WW

=== Chapter 3. IS OPPORTUNITY MONOPOLIZED? ===

# “Why not turn your attention to the development of businesses, instead of competing with the big conglomerates for a chance in the business world?” - WW

# “There is an abundance of opportunity for the man who will go with the tide, instead of trying to swim against it.” - WW

# “No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches. There is more than enough for all. … No person, therefore, is poor because nature is poor or because there is not enough to go around. Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches. The supply will never run short. … You are not kept poor by shortness in the supply of riches.” - WW

=== Chapter 4. THE FIRST PRINCIPLE IN THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH ===

# “A human being is a thinking center and can originate thought. All the forms that a person fashions with his hands must first emerge from this thought. He cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.” - WW

# “A person must be able to think in a certain way. A person’s way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things. To do the things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think. This is the first step toward getting rich.” - WW

# “As a first step toward getting rich, you must believe the three fundamentals statements … There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates and fills the interspaces of the universe. … A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. …. A person can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon farmless substances, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.” - WW

=== Chapter 5. INCREASING LIFE ===

# “We must get rich so that we can live more. The desire for riches is simply the capacity for larger life seeking fulfillment … it is power seeking to manifest which cause desire. That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow. It is life seeking fuller expression.” - WW

# “You must want real life, not mere pleasure or sensual gratification. Life is the performance of function, and the individual really lives only when he performs without excess every function - Physical (Body), Mental (Mind), and Spiritual (Soul) - of which he is capable. You do not want to get rich in order to live swinishly for the gratification of animal desires. That is not life.” - WW

# “You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created. You do not have to take anything from anyone. … You are to become a creator, not a competitor.” - WW

# “You are not seeking any thing that is possessed by anybody else; you are causing what you want to be created from the formless substance. And, the supply is limitless.” - WW

=== Chapter 6. HOW RICHES COME TO YOU ===

# “You do not have to beat anybody in business. And if you are in the business which does beat people, get out of it at once.” - WW

# “You can have anything you want, as long as you use it for the advancement of your own life and the lives of others. … God, the one substance, is trying to live and do and enjoy things through humanity. … You need not to hesitate to ask largely. Your part is to focus and express the desires of God.” - WW

# “Holding the whole picture in his mind, he began living in the certain way and moving toward what he wanted. … according to his mental image. Now, with still larger faith, he is proceeding to get greater things. It has been unto him according to his faith, and it is so with you and with all of us.” - WW

=== Chapter 7. GRATITUDE ===

# “The whole process of mental adjustment and attunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude.” - WW

# “The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. … if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in the formless substance will be strong and continuous” - WW

# “Faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectations becomes faith. Every outgoing of gratitude upon one’s own mind produces faith. The person who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain a living faith.” - WW

# “Do not waste time thinking or talking about shortcomings or wrong actions of plutocrats or trust magnates. Their organization of the world has made your opportunity. All that you have received really has come to you because of them.” - WW

=== Chapter 8. THINKING IN THE CERTAIN WAY ===

# “Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture. … The more clear and definite you make your picture, and the more you dwell upon it, the stronger your desire will be. And the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.” - WW

# “Something is more necessary than merely seeing the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer and will have little or no power for accomplishment. Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it, to bring it out in a tangible expression. … Live in the new house mentally until it takes form around you physically.” - WW

# “The person who can sincerely thank God for the things which he owns only in imagination has real faith. The person will get rich; that person will cause the creation of whatsoever he wants” - WW

# “Hold to the faith that the imaginary is being realized and to the purpose required to realize it. Remember that it is faith and purpose in the use of imagination which makes the difference between the scientist and the dreamer.” - WW

=== Chapter 9. HOW TO USE THE WILL ===

# “To set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply your will power to anything outside of yourself. … You have no right to use your will power upon another person - even “for his own good” - because you do not know what is for his own good.” - WW

# “The science of getting rich does not require you to apply power or force to any other person, in any way whatsoever. There is not the slightest necessity for doing so. … You do not need to apply your will to things for them to come to you” - WW

# “Do not try to project your will or your thoughts or your mind out into space to act om things or people. Keep your mind at home. It can accomplish more there then elsewhere.” - WW

# “You cannot hold the mental image which is necessary to make you rich if you fill your mind with pictures of poverty. … Do not read anything which fills your mind with gloomy images of want and suffering. … You are not deserting the poor in their misery when you refuse to allow your mind to be filled with pictures of that misery.” - WW

# “Use your will power to keep your mind off the subject of poverty and to keep your mind fixed with faith and purpose on the vision of what you want.” - WW

=== Chapter 10. FURTHER THE USE OF THE WILL ===

# “You cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, either external or imaginary.” - WW

# “Put poverty and all things that pertain to poverty completely behind you.” - WW

# “To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life because it includes everything else.” - WW

# “They have their own work to do and their own problems to solve. We have no right to interfere with them. We cannot help them. … Solve your own problem; Get Rich.” - WW

=== Chapter 11. Acting in the Certain Way ===

# “Thought is the impelling force which causes the creative power to act. Thinking in the certain way will bring riches to you, but you must not reply upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action.” - WW

# “The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want, in holding fast to your purpose to get what you want, and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.” - WW

# “By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it. Whatever your action is to be, it is evident that you must act now.” - WW

# “If you act in the present with your mind in the future, your present action will be with a divided mind and will not be effective. Put your whole mind into present action.” - WW

# “You cannot act where you are not. You cannot act where you have been, and you cannot act where you are going to be. You can act only where you are. … Do not spend any time in day dreaming or castle building. Hold to the vision of what you want, and act now.” - WW

# “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.” - WW

=== Chapter 12. EFFICIENT ACTION ===

# “You must begin to do what you can do where you are, and you must do all that you can do where you are.” - WW

# “Everyday is either a successful day or a day of failure. And, it is successful days which get you want you want. If everyday is a failure, you can never get rich; if everyday is a success, you cannot help but get rich.“ - WW

# “Do, everyday, all that can be done that day.” - WW

# “Every act is, in itself, either efficient or inefficient. Every inefficient act is a failure, and if you spend your life doing inefficient acts, your whole life will be a failure. … On the other hand, every efficient act is a success in itself, and if every act of your life is an efficient one, your whole life must be a success.” - WW

# “Every action is either strong or weak. When everyone is strong, you are acting in the certain way which will make you rich.” - WW

# “Every act will be a success in itself. … your progress toward what you want, and the movement of what you want toward you will become increasingly rapid. Remember that successful action is cumulative in its results. Do, everyday, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.” - WW

=== Chapter 13. GETTING INTO THE RIGHT BUSINESS ===

# “You can get rich in any business because if you have not the right talent for it, you can develop that talent.” - WW

# “You will get rich most easily 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. Doing what you want to do is life.” - WW

# “Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry or fear.” - WW

# “Go as fast as you can, but never hurry. … Whenever you find yourself hurrying, stop. Fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want and begin to give thanks that you are getting it.” - WW

=== Chapter 14. THE IMPRESSION OF INCREASE ===

# “The normal desire for increased wealth is not evil or a reprehensible thing. It is simply the desire for more abundant life.” - WW

# “Convey the impression by holding the unshakable faith that you are in the way of increase and by letting this faith inspire, fill and permeate every action. Do everything that you do in the firm conviction that you are an advancing personality, and that you are giving advancement to everybody” - WW

# “Do not boast or brag of your success or talk about it unnecessarily. True faith is never boastful.” - WW

# “Let me here give you another word of caution in regard to motives: beware of the insidious temptation to seek power over other people. … Look out for the temptation to seek authority, to become a master, to be considered as one who is above the common herd, and to impress others by lavish display.” - WW

=== Chapter 15. THE ADVANCING MAN ===

# “Form your clear mental vision of what you want and begin to act with faith and purpose.” - WW

# “Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner. Put the power of success and the purpose of getting rich into everything that you do.” - WW

# “To secure advancement, something more is necessary than to be too large for your place. The person 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 b and who is determined to be what he wants to be.” - WW

# “Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be. When an opportunity is o be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a still greater opportunity.” - WW

# “There is no such thing possible in this universe as a lack of opportunities for a person who is living the advancing life.” - WW

=== Chapter 16. SOME CAUTIONS AND CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS ===

# “If the people had the advancing mind and had the faith that they can become rich, nothing could possibly keep them in poverty.” - WW

# “Do not spend any time in planning how you will meet possible emergencies in the future. You should be concerned with doing today’s work in a perfectly successful manner - not with emergencies which may arise tomorrow. You can attend to them as they come.” - WW

# “Always speak in terms of advancement. To do otherwise is to deny your faith, and to deny your faith is to lose it.” - WW

=== Chapter 17. A SUMMARY OF THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH ===

# “The Science of Getting Rich. … Read these creed statements over and over again:

There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates and fills the interspaces of the universe.

A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imagined by the thought.

A person can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

In order to do this, a person must pass from the competitive to the creative mind. He must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants. And, he must hold this picture in his thoughts with the fixed purpose to get what he wants, and the unwavering faith that he will get what he wants - closing his minds to all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quench his faith.

That he may receive what he wants when it comes, a person must act now upon the people and things in his present environment.

And, he must do with faith and purpose all that can be done each day - doing each separate thing in an efficient manner.” - WW

# “The person who wishes to get rich must spend his leisure hours in contemplating his vision and in earnest thanksgiving that this reality is being given to him. Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of frequent contemplation and devout gratitude. This is the process by which the impression is given to the formless substance and the creative forces set in motion.” - WW

# “The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.” - WW

=== END OF BOOK ===