Wallace Wattles
1860 – 1911 · United States · New Thought, Economics
The Science of Getting Rich turned New Thought toward prosperity and later inspired The Secret.
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- Prentice Mulford
1834 – 1891 · New Thought, Literature
Thought-as-force writing precedes and feeds The Science of Getting Rich.
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- Napoleon Hill
1883 – 1970 · New Thought, Economics
Wattles's success formula is the immediate ancestor of Think and Grow Rich.
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