"A penny here, and a dollar there, placed……" — P T Barnum
"A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained."
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67 Quotes by P T Barnum
P T Barnum has 67 quotes on this site.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of…
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove…
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of…
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people…
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Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,…
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We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of…
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How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?
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There's a sucker born every minute.
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More Accumulating Quotes
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
— Charles Babbage
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
— Andrew Carnegie
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As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential…
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
— Mark Twain
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Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body
— George Carlin
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We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion.…
— Rajneesh
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your…
— Denis Waitley
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Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.
— Robin Sharma
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There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise…
— Unknown Author
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for…
— Kathleen Turner
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