P. T. Barnum Quotes - Page 3

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• I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

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  Profession

  P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.268, Lulu.com

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• No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

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  Men, Succeed, Application

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.45, Applewood Books

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• There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

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  Morning, Men, Luck

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.49, Applewood Books

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• No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

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  Stories, Calling, Trade

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.60, Applewood Books

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• In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

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  Land, People, United States

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

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  Men, Kind, Truth Is

  P. T. Barnum (2007). “The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money”, p.42, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

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  Men, Earning It, Young

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.74, Applewood Books

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• A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.

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  Training, Dollars, Goes On

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

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  Errors, Age, Doe

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.62, Applewood Books

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• More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.

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  Believe, Too Much, Belief

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• A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

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  Beautiful, Rocks, Romance

  "The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages". Book by P. T. Barnum, 1865.

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• Instead of spending money, I earned it.

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  Spending, Spending Money

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• I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

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  Children, Laughing, Exhibitions

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• Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

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  Men, Littles, Advertising

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• I risked much, but I made much.

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  Made

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• Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

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  Men, Kind, Truth Is

  P. T. Barnum (2005). “Making Money”, p.77

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• Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

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  Children, Men, Needs

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• Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

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  Pursuit, Pure

  P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

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  Expression, Interesting, Humanity

  P.T. BARNUM (1866). “THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD”, p.13

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• I am prouder of my title 'The Children's Friend' than if I were to be called 'The King of the World'.

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  Kings, Children, Titles

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• If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.

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  Queens, Humility, Men

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• Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.

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  Land, Advertising, Increase

  P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.45, Lulu.com

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• A salary was not sufficient for me.

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  Salary, Sufficient

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• The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

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  Responsibility, Humanity, Desire

  P. T. Barnum (2015). “The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money”, p.53, Booklassic

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• Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

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  Silly, Absurd, Witchcraft

  P.T. BARNUM (1866). “THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD”, p.307

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