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
How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?
Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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.
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.
We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.
Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.