P T Barnum Quotes
101 P T Barnum Quotes
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Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to 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.
P T Barnum
However easy it may be found to make money… it is the most difficult thing in the world to keep it.
P T Barnum
The road to wealth… consists simply in expending less than we earn…
P T Barnum
To have annual income of twenty pounds per annum, and spend twenty pounds and sixpence, is to be the most miserable of men; whereas, to have an income of only twenty pounds, and spend but nineteen pounds and sixpence is to be the happiest of mortals.
P T Barnum
Many people think they understand economy when they really do not.
P T Barnum
Economy is not meanness.
P T Barnum
They are like the man who bought a penny herring for his family’s dinner and then hired a couch and four to take it home.
P T Barnum
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go.
P T Barnum
You cannot accumulate a fortune by taking the road that leads to poverty.
P T Barnum
A brisk walk will prove more exhilarating than a ride in the finest coach…
P T Barnum
Prosperity is a more severe ordeal than adversity, especially sudden prosperity.
P T Barnum
Many persons, as they begin to prosper, immediately expand their ideas and commence expending for luxuries, until in a short time their expenses swallow up their income, and they become ruined in their ridiculous attempts to keep up appearances, and make a ‘sensation’.
P T Barnum
A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
P T Barnum
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. He has no ambition; no incentive; no force. Of course, there are those who have bad health and cannot help it: you cannot expect that such persons can accumulate wealth, but there are a great many in poor health who need not be so.
P T Barnum
The nearer we keep to the laws of nature, the nearer we are to good health…
P T Barnum
An artificial habit is stronger than nature. Take for instance, and old tobacco-chewer… He can give up roast beef easier than give up the weed.
P T Barnum
The more a man smokes, the more he craves smoking…
P T Barnum
A man has got to see that two and two make four.
P T Barnum
No man can succeed in business unless he has a brain to enable him to lay his plans, and reason to guide him in their execution…
P T Barnum
We are all… born for a wise purpose.
P T Barnum
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited for his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.
P T Barnum
Perseverance is… but another world for self-reliance.
P T Barnum
Until you can get so that you can rely upon yourself, you need not expect to succeed.
P T Barnum
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P T Barnum
A man buys his experience, and it is the best kind if not purchased at too dear a rate.
P T Barnum
There is no such thing in the world as luck… If a If a man adopts the proper methods to be successful, ‘luck’ will not prevent him.
P T Barnum
Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.
P T Barnum
The road to learning is a royal one; the road that enables the student to expand his intellect and add every day to his stock of knowledge, until, in the pleasant process of intellectual growth, he is able to solve the most profound problems, to count the stars, to analyze every atom of the globe, and to measure the firmament this is a regal highway, and it is the only road worth travelling.
P T Barnum
Young men loaded down with other people’s money are almost sure to lose all they inherit, and they acquire all sorts of bad habits which, in the majority of cases, ruin them in health, purse and character.
P T Barnum
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.
P T Barnum
Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until your experience shows that you should abandon it.
P T Barnum
A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last…
P T Barnum
Many a fortune has slipped through a man’s fingers because he was engaged in too many occupations at a time. There is good sense in the old caution against having too many irons in the fire at once.
P T Barnum
Men should be systematic in their business.
P T Barnum
He who is without newspaper is cut off from his species.
P T Barnum
No man ought ever to indorse a note or become security, for any man, be it his father or brother, to a greater extent than he can afford to lose and care nothing about, without taking good security.
P T Barnum
It is a very dangerous thing… to let people get possession of money too easily.
P T Barnum
With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it. When he does understand its value, then grease the wheels a little in helping him to start business, but remember, men who get money with too great facility cannot usually succeed. You must get the first dollars by hard knocks, and at some sacrifice, in order to appreciate the value of those dollars.
P T Barnum
The public is wiser than many imagine.
P T Barnum
An ass for every seat.
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