Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it.… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
