Wallace Delois Wattles (1860–1911) was an American author. He was an advocate of the New Thought movement, whose proponents, religious and secular, shared a set of metaphysical beliefs concerning the effects of positive thinking, the law of attraction, healing, life force, creative visualization and personal power. He remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the (New) New Thought and self-help movements.
Wattles' best known work is a 1910 book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explained how to become wealthy.

Rhonda Byrne told a Newsweek interviewer that her inspiration for creating the 2006 hit film The Secret and the subsequent book by the same name, was her exposure to Wattles's The Science of Getting Rich. Byrne's daughter, Hayley, had given her mother a copy of the Wattles book to help her recover from her breakdown Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.