P. T. Barnum
P. T. Barnum
Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnumwas an American politician, showman, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, "I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me", and his personal aim was "to put money in his own coffers". Barnum is widely, but erroneously, credited with coining the phrase "There's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 July 1810
CityBethel, CT
CountryUnited States of America
P. T. Barnum quotes about
You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all…
I am prouder of my title 'The Children's Friend' than if I were to be called 'The King of the World'.
A salary was not sufficient for me.
Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the outgo.
I risked much, but I made much.
Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.
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.
Instead of spending money, I earned it.
To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of 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.