Mr. Devito's Key Ideas from A Happy Pocket Full of Money, Expanded Study Edition
by David Cameron Gikandi

There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.

—Wallace D. Wattles.

Knowing what wealth is is the first step toward having it. And few people are aware of what it is in and of itself. What exactly is wealth? What is the root of the problem? What is the root of the problem? Let's begin with money, the world's emblem of riches, and work our way deeper from there.

Money is merely a medium of exchange, or legal tender. We utilise it to trade goods and services. It is a symbol of worth. The “body” of value is money. Within us, it is the physical expression of value that increases and falls. Not in “things” outside of ourselves, but in ourselves. Because without us, what can an item like a car be worth to us? Nothing, at least not to our knowledge. In other words, it is we, the observers, who assign value to objects, but this value is truly value in us—we assign worth to material objects.