The Science of Getting Rich (Original Text)—with a New Foreword by Michael Wish

The short classic that launched a century of wealth writing—now introduced by a contemporary guide to meaning, morality, and practical ambition.

First published in 1910, Wallace D. Wattles’ The Science of Getting Rich presents a step-by-step “Certain Way of Thinking” rooted in the Hindu-inflected idea that One is All, and All is One. It argues for creating—not competing—giving more use-value than you take in cash, holding a definite vision, practicing gratitude, and taking efficient daily action. The book preceded—and helped shape—later landmarks like Think and Grow Rich and inspired The Secret.

What’s inside this edition

• The complete, unabridged original text.
• A new foreword by Michael Wish that pulls the book out of the dustbin and into the modern arena. Wish explores why this “odd fusion of moral philosophy, metaphysics, and practical ambition” refuses to die; the world Wattles wrote in; the radical claim that you have the right to be rich; the problem of “Formless Substance”; and the real contribution—the Certain Way as a proto-system for wealth creation. He traces Wattles’s influence (and misuses), then reframes the core ideas as operational truths for today: clarity, creative value, disciplined action, gratitude.

Listen to it in an afternoon; return to it for a lifetime. Whether you treat “Formless Substance” as metaphor or mechanism, you’ll find a compact operating manual for turning intention into outcomes—noncompetitively, coherently, and with your soul intact.