Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by P. T. Barnum - Page 2

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.

With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

Instead of spending money, I earned it.

I am prouder of my title 'The Children's Friend' than if I were to be called 'The King of the World'.

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

I risked much, but I made much.

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.

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

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’.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

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.

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the outgo.

A salary was not sufficient for me.

The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

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.

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.

In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.

I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

I never liked to work, I mean manual work.

The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.