P.T. Barnum Quotes

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

There's one born every minute.

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.

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

I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

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

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

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

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

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

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

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

Instead of spending money, I earned it.

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.

A salary was not sufficient for me.

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

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

I never liked to work, I mean manual work.

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

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.

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

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.