P. T. Barnum - Man Quotes

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

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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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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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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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