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Men Quotes by P T Barnum
- Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your…
- 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…
- 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…
- Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
- 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…
- Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered…
- No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.
- The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.
- 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…
- Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
- 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…
- 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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