P. T. Barnum Quotes

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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

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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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Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.

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The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.

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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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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

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

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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

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There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.

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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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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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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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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

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

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You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.

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

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

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There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

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If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.

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Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.

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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.

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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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The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

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

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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

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Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

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The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

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