The Science Of Getting Rich
By
Wallace D. Wattles
# 17
Some Cautions And Concluding Observations
MANY people will scoff at the idea that there is an
exact science of getting rich; holding the impression that the supply of
wealth is limited, they will insist that social and governmental
institutions must be changed before even any considerable number of
people can acquire a competence.
But this is not true.
It is true that existing governments keep the masses in
poverty, but this is because the masses do not think and act in the
Certain Way.
If the masses begin to move forward as suggested in this
book, neither governments nor industrial systems can check them; all
systems must be modified to accommodate the forward movement.
If the people have the Advancing Mind, have the Faith
that they can become rich, and move forward with the fixed purpose to
become rich, nothing can possibly keep them in poverty.
Individuals may enter upon the Certain Way at any time,
and under any government, and make themselves rich; and when any
considerable number of individuals do so under any government, they will
cause the system to be so modified as to open the way for others.
The more men who get rich on the competitive plane, the
worse for others; the more who get rich on the creative plane, the
better for others.
The economic salvation of the masses can only be
accomplished by getting a large number of people to practice the
scientific method set down in this book, and become rich. These will
show others the way, and inspire them with a desire for real life, with
the faith that it can be attained, and with the purpose to attain it.
For the present, however, it is enough to know that
neither the government under which you live nor the capitalistic or
competitive system of industry can keep you from getting rich. When you
enter upon the creative plane of thought you will rise above all these
things and become a citizen of another kingdom.
But remember that your thought must be held upon the
creative plane; you are never for an instant to be betrayed into
regarding the supply as limited, or into acting on the moral level of
competition.
Whenever you do fall into old ways of thought, correct
yourself instantly; for when you are in the competitive mind, you have
lost the cooperation of the Mind of the Whole.
Do not spend any time in planning as to how you will
meet possible emergencies in the future, except as the necessary
policies may affect your actions today. You are concerned with doing
today's work in a perfectly successful manner, and not with emergencies
which may arise tomorrow; you can attend to them as they come.
Do not concern yourself with questions as to how you
shall surmount obstacles which may loom upon your business horizon,
unless you can see plainly that your course must be altered today in
order to avoid them.
No matter how tremendous an obstruction may appear at a
distance, you will find that if you go on in the Certain Way it will
disappear as you approach it, or that a way over, though, or around it
will appear.
No possible combination of circumstances can defeat a
man or woman who is proceeding to get rich along strictly scientific
lines. No man or woman who obeys the law can fail to get rich, any more
than one can multiply two by two and fail to get four.
Give no anxious thought to possible disasters,
obstacles, panics, or unfavorable combinations of circumstances; it is
time enough to meet such things when they present themselves before you
in the immediate present, and you will find that every difficulty
carries with it the wherewithal for its overcoming.
Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself, your
affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or discouraging way.
Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a
way that infers failure as a possibility.
Never speak of the times as being hard, or of business
conditions as being doubtful. Times may be hard and business doubtful
for those who are on the competitive plane, but they can never be so for
you; you can create what you want, and you are above fear.
When others are having hard times and poor business, you
will find your greatest opportunities.
Train yourself to think of and to look upon the world as
a something which is Becoming, which is growing; and to regard seeming
evil as being only that which is undeveloped. Always speak in terms of
advancement; to do otherwise is to deny your faith, and to deny your
faith is to lose it.
Never allow yourself to feel disappointed. You may
expect to have a certain thing at a certain time, and not get it at that
time; and this will appear to you like failure.
But if you hold to your faith you will find that the
failure is only apparent.
Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that
thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that
the seeming failure was really a great success.
A student of this science had set his mind on making a
certain business combination which seemed to him at the time to be very
desirable, and he worked for some, weeks to bring it about. When the
crucial time came, the thing failed in a perfectly inexplicable way; it
was as if some unseen influence had been working secretly against him.
He was not disappointed; on the contrary, he thanked God that his desire
had been overruled, and went steadily on with a grateful mind. In a few
weeks an opportunity so much better came his way that he would not have
made the first deal on any account; and he saw that a Mind which knew
more than he knew had prevented him from losing the greater good by
entangling himself with the lesser.
That is the way every seeming failure will work out for
you, if you keep your faith, hold to your purpose, have gratitude, and
do, every day, all that can be done that day, doing each separate act in
a successful manner.
When you make a failure, it is because you have not
asked for enough; keep on, and a larger thing then you were seeking will
certainly come to you. Remember this.
You will not fail because you lack the necessary talent
to do what you wish to do. If you go on as I have directed, you will
develop all the talent that is necessary to the doing of your work.
It is not within the scope of this book to deal with the
science of cultivating talent; but it is as certain and simple as the
process of getting rich.
However, do not hesitate or waver for fear that when you
come to any certain place you will fail for lack of ability; keep right
on, and when you come to that place, the ability will be furnished to
you. The same source of Ability which enabled the untaught Lincoln to do
the greatest work in government ever accomplished by a single man is
open to you; you may draw upon all the mind there is for wisdom to use
in meeting the responsibilities which are laid upon you. Go on in full
faith.
Study this book. Make it your constant companion until
you have mastered all the ideas contained in it. While you are getting
firmly established in this faith, you will do well to give up most
recreations and pleasure; and to stay away from places where ideas
conflicting with these are advanced in lectures or sermons. Do not read
pessimistic or conflicting literature, or get into arguments upon the
matter. Do very little reading, outside of the writers mentioned in the
Preface. Spend most of your leisure time in contemplating your vision,
and in cultivating gratitude, and in reading this book. It contains all
you need to know of the science of getting rich; and you will find all
the essentials summed up in the following chapter.
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1 - Preface
2 - The Right To Be Rich
3 - There Is A Science Of Getting Rich
4 - Is Opportunity Monopolized?
5 -The First Principle In The Science Of Getting
Rich
6 - Increasing Life
7 - How Riches Come To You
8 - Gratitude
9 - Thinking In The Certain Way
10 - How To Use The Will
11 - Further Use Of The Will
12 - Acting In The Certain Way
13 - Efficient Action
14 - Getting Into The Right Business
15 - The Impression Of Increase
16 - The Advancing Man
17- Some Cautions And Concluding Observations
18 - Summary Of The Science Of Getting Rich
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