P T Barnum Quotes

101 P T Barnum Quotes

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

Every man’s occupation should be beneficial to his fellow man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
P T Barnum

I believe hugely in advertising and in blowing my own trumpet… but I never believed that any amount of advertising or energy would make a spurious article permanently successful.
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We cannot all see alike but we can all do good.
P T Barnum

Ordeals belong to times and communities of rudeness, violence, materialism, ignorance, gross superstition and blind faith.
P T Barnum

[As a child] I earned ten cents a day for riding the horse which led the ox-team in ploughing, and on holidays and ‘training days,’ instead of spending money, I earned it.
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There is a great deal to be learned in a country store… that sharp trades, tricks, dishonesty and deception are by no means confined to the city.
P T Barnum

I literally began the world with nothing, and was barefooted at that.
P T Barnum

[On starting his first business] My total capital was one hundred and twenty dollars, fifty of which I had expended in fitting up the store, and the remaining seventy dollars purchased my stock in trade.
P T Barnum

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity…
P T Barnum



The Croton or spring water taste better than champagne…
P T Barnum

Many persons knowingly violate the laws of nature… for the sake of fashion.
P T Barnum

Young lads regret that they are not men… and to accomplish this they copy the bad habits of their seniors.
P T Barnum

To make money, requires a clear brain.
P T Barnum

[Bad] Debt robs a man of his self-respect, and makes him almost despise himself.
P T Barnum

Depend upon your own personal exertions…
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[On employing people] You cannot have too good tools to work with, and there is no tool you should be so particular about as living tools.
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Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.
P T Barnum

Let money work for you, and you have the most devoted servant in the world.
P T Barnum

I believe that my life was a happy one, because I always saw the positive side of things.
P T Barnum



Advertising is like learning – ‘a little is a dangerous thing!’
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