The Science of Getting Rich
Wattles argues that wealth follows from thinking and acting in a specific way, and sets out what he claims that way is. Brisk, confident, and short.
Things worth knowing
- It was published in 1910 by Elizabeth Towne of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and runs to seventeen chapters, the last of which summarises the other sixteen.
- Rhonda Byrne's account of The Secret begins with a copy of this book that her daughter gave her, two years before the 2006 film and book.
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Listen, or read along
Every chapter has the recording and the same chapter as text. Open both if you like: the text is the words you are hearing.
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1 Preface 3 min
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2 Chapter One. the Right to Be Rich 6 min
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3 Chapter Two. There Is a Science of Getting Rich 7 min
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4 Chapter Three. Is Opportunity Monopolized? 7 min
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5 Chapter Four. the First Principle in the Science of Getting Rich 10 min
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6 Chapter Five. Increasing Life 10 min
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7 Chapter Six. How Riches Come to You 9 min
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8 Chapter Seven. Gratitude 7 min
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9 Chapter Eight. Thinking in the Certain Way 8 min
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10 Chapter Nine. How to Use the Will 8 min
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11 Chapter Ten. Further Use of the Will 9 min
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12 Chapter Eleven. Acting in the Certain Way 10 min
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13 Chapter Twelve. Efficient Action 8 min
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14 Chapter Thirteen. Getting into the Right Business 7 min
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15 Chapter Fourteen. the Impression of Increase 7 min
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16 Chapter Fifteen. the Advancing Man 7 min
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17 Chapter Sixteen. Some Cautions, and Concluding Observations 8 min
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18 Chapter Seventeen. Summary of the Science of Getting Rich 3 min
Where this comes from
US public domain: first published 1910, before the 1930 cutoff. Author d.1911, so also clear in life+70 jurisdictions.
Cover image: generated for this edition.
Narration: text-to-speech.
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