P. T. Barnum Quotes

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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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In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

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

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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

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But however mysterious is nature, however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science, the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.

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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

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Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

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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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Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

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Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always 'under the harrow'.

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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

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

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