first edition of Wattles’ classic

Why Read The Science of Getting Rich?

This “golden oldie” with the gauche title runs deeper than you may think

Next to Think and Grow Rich, I have never encountered a work of modern self-development that means more to more people — me included — than The Science of Getting Rich.

The Enigma of Napoleon Hill

In his 1910 book, author Wallace D. Wattles (1860–1911), a combination of social reformer and spiritual radical once found in the Progressive Era, attempted to distill practical metaphysics for the masses.

Wattles ploughed through Hegel, Emerson, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Kant, and world religious literature to determine the connection between thought and experience. His extreme idealism announced itself without embarrassment as The Science of Getting Rich.

Heaven Is a Place on Earth