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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
P. T. Barnum
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P. T. Barnum
Age: 80 †
Born: 1810
Born: July 5
Died: 1891
Died: April 7
Autobiographer
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Circus Performer
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Phineas Taylor Barnum
PT Barnum
Phineas Barnum
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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.
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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.
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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 today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
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I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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I risked much, but I made much.
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You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all.
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Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.
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The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
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Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
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To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.
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Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only 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.
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There's no such thing as bad publicity.
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Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes more suffering. Give the whole dose, and the cure will be certain and decisive.
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