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P. T. Barnum, born on July 5, 1810, in Connecticut, was a renowned American businessman, circus owner, and performer. He is best known for his role in founding Barnum & Bailey's Great Show, one of the most famous circuses in American history. Barnum was known for his unique marketing strategies and business acumen, and his life was filled with legendary tales.

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Famous P. T. Barnum Quotes

“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.”

Needs Giving Persons Doe Whole Certain Suffering Causes Results Half Sick Medicine Cures Advertising Dose Sick Person

Author:P. T. Barnum

“More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.”

Believe Persons Whole Belief Too Much

Author:P. T. Barnum

“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.”

Source: Golden Rules for Making Money

“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.”

Wells Persons Life Is Sick Bases Foundation Fortune Success In Life Good Health Life Is Good

Book:The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money

Source: The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money

“Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow’.”

Looks Persons Success Certain Water Poor Business Projects Hot Visionaries Hot Water

Book:Art of Money Getting: Easyread Edition

Source: Art of Money Getting: Easyread Edition

“In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.”

People Persons States Difficult United United States Land Making Money Good Health

Book:Art of Money Getting

Source: Art of Money Getting

“There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.”

Persons Debt Drag

Book:The Art of Money Getting + The Humbugs of the World (2 Unabridged Classics)

Source: The Art of Money Getting + The Humbugs of the World (2 Unabridged Classics)

About the Author

Born: July 5, 1810
Died: April 7, 1891
Known for: Businessman
Quotes: 91

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