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P. T. Barnum
Age: 80 †
Born: 1810
Born: July 5
Died: 1891
Died: April 7
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I risked much, but I made much.
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary dispense with the new pair of gloves mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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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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Whatever you do, do it ardently.
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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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How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
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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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Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means
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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 accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.
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I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess.
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The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
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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 this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.
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In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
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Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
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Instead of spending money, I earned it.
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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