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I risked much, but I made much.
P. T. Barnum
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P. T. Barnum
Age: 80 †
Born: 1810
Born: July 5
Died: 1891
Died: April 7
Autobiographer
Businessman
Businessperson
Circus Performer
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Phineas Taylor Barnum
PT Barnum
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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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The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.
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Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means
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If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.
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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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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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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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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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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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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.
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In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
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