Cautions and 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 for-​​ward 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 peo­ple 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 supreme mind.

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, under, through, 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. There 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. But 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.

Spend most of your leisure time in con­tem­plat­ing your vision, 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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