P.T. Barnum: The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules For Making Money

• 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.
• Many a man acquires a fortune by doing his business thoroughly, while his neighbor remains poor for life, because he only half does it.
• The poor spendthrift vagabond says to a rich man:  "I have discovered there is enough money in the world for all of us, if it was equally divided; this must be done, and we shall all be happy together."
• No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
• A man who is all caution, will never dare to take hold and be successful; and a man who is all boldness, is merely reckless, and must eventually fail.
• There is no greater mistake than when a young man believes he will succeed with borrowed money.
• Any "legitimate" business is a double blessing it helps the man engaged in it, and also helps others.
• If a man has plenty of money, he ought to invest something in everything that appears to promise success, and that will probably benefit mankind; but let the sums invested be moderate in amount, and never let a man foolishly jeopardize a fortune that he has earned in a legitimate way, by investing it in things in which he has had no experience.
• It is a very dangerous thing at any time, to let people get possession of money too easily; it tempts them to hazardous speculations, if nothing more.

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