The Art of Money Getting Quotes

“WHATEVER YOU DO, DO IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. The old proverb is full of truth and meaning, "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." Many a man acquires a fortune by doing his business thoroughly, while his neighbor remains poor for life, because he only half does it. Ambition, energy, industry, perseverance, are indispensable requisites for success in business. Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

“Be cautious and bold.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

“Money is, in some respects, like fire. It is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.”
― P. T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting : Or Golden Rules for Making Money

“Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.”
― P T Barnum, Art of Money Getting (HC)

“Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt. There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt. It is a slavish position to get ill, yet we find many a young man, hardly out of his "teens," running in debt. He meets a chum and says, "Look at this: I have got trusted for a new suit of clothes." He seems to look upon the clothes as so much given to him; well, it frequently is so, but, if he succeeds in paying and then gets trusted again, he is adopting a habit which will keep him in poverty through life. Debt robs a man of his self-respect, and makes him almost despise himself.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

“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.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

“Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

“The foundation of success in life is good health:”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

“Dr. Franklin says "it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

“The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.”
― P T Barnum, Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Getting Money

“Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

“The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

“I will loose my camel, and trust it to God!" "No, no, not so," said the prophet, "tie thy camel, and trust it to God!”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

“The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.”
― P T Barnum, Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Getting Money

“Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to 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.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

“Remember the proverb of Solomon: "He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.”
― P.T. Barnum, Art of Money Getting Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

“Writing lives forever, while you may not.”
― P. T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money

“The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves. Promiscuous almsgiving, without inquiring into the worthiness of the applicant, is bad in every sense. But to search out and quietly assist those who are struggling for themselves, is the kind that “scattereth and yet increaseth.”
― P. T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money

“Go in confidence, study the rules, and above all things, study human nature for the proper study of mankind is man and you will find that while expanding the intellect and the muscles your enlarged experience will enable you to every day accumulate more and more principle which will increase itself by interest and otherwise until you arrive at a state of independence. ”
― Pt Barnum, The Art of Money Getting

“You reflect that he is worth twenty thousand dollars, and you incur no risk by endorsing his note; you like to accommodate him, and you lend your name without taking the precaution of getting security. Shortly after, he shows you the note with your endorsement canceled, and tells you, probably truly, "that he made the profit that he expected by the operation," you reflect that you have done a good action, and the thought makes you feel happy. By and by, the same thing occurs again and you do it again; you have already fixed the impression in your mind that it is perfectly safe to indorse his notes without security.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

“The public very properly shun all whose integrity is doubted. No matter how polite and pleasant and accommodating a man may be, none of us dare to deal with him if we suspect "false weights and measures.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

“Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.”
― P. T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money

“The history of money-getting, which is commerce, is a history of civilization, and wherever trade has flourished most, there, too, have art and science produced the noblest fruits. In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them, in a great measure, are we indebted for our institutions of learning and of art, our academies, colleges, and churches.”
― P. T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money

“it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

“There are many rich poor men,” while there are many others, honest and devout men and women, who have never possessed so much money as some rich persons squander in a week, but who are nevertheless really richer and happier than any man can ever be while he is a transgressor of the higher laws of his being.

The inordinate love of money, no doubt, may be and is “the root of all evil,” but money itself, when properly used, is not only a “handy thing to have in the house,” but affords the gratification of blessing our race by enabling its possessor to enlarge the scope of human happiness and human influence. 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.

The history of money-getting, which is commerce, is a history of civilization, and wherever trade has flourished most, there, too, have art and science produced the noblest fruits.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

“Go on in confidence, study the rules, and above all things, study human nature; for
"the proper study of mankind is man," and you will find that while expanding the intellect
and the muscles, your enlarged experience will enable you every day to accumulate more
and more principal, which will increase itself by interest and otherwise, until you arrive
at a state of independence. You will find, as a general thing, that the poor boys get rich and the rich boys get poor.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting Or Golden Rules for Maki

“Give a boy twenty thousand dollars and put him in business, and the chances are that he will lose every dollar of it before he is a year older. Like buying a ticket in the lottery; and drawing a prize, it is "easy come, easy go." He does not know the value of it; nothing is worth anything, unless it costs effort. Without self-denial and economy; patience and perseverance, and commencing with capital which you have not earned, you are not sure to succeed in accumulating.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting (Annotated): Golden Rules for Making Money

“The Rothschilds have another maxim: "Never have anything to do with an unlucky man or place." That is to say, never have anything to do with a man or place which never succeeds, because, although a man may appear to be honest and intelligent, yet if he tries this or that thing and always fails, it is on account of some fault or infirmity that you may not be able to discover but nevertheless which must exist.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it. "Like causes produce like effects." If a man adopts the proper methods to be successful, "luck" will not prevent him. If he does not succeed, there are reasons for it, although, perhaps, he may not be able to see them.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money Annotated

“People have got to do as Cromwell said: "not only trust in Providence, but keep the powder dry." Do your part of the work, or you cannot succeed. Mahomet, one night, while encamping in the desert, overheard one of his fatigued followers remark: "I will loose my camel, and trust it to God!" "No, no, not so," said the prophet, "tie thy camel, and trust it to God!" Do all you can for yourselves, and then trust to Providence”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting

“Davy Crockett said:
"This thing remember, when I am dead: Be sure you are right, then go ahead."

It is this go-aheaditiveness, this determination not to let the "horrors" or the "blues" take possession of you, so as to make you relax your energies in the struggle for independence, which you must cultivate.

How many have almost reached the goal of their ambition, but, losing faith in themselves, have relaxed their energies, and the golden prize has been lost forever.

It is, no doubt, often true, as Shakespeare says:

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."

If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize. Remember the proverb of Solomon: "He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich."

Perseverance is sometimes but another word for self-reliance. Many persons naturally look on the dark side of life, and borrow trouble. They are born so. Then they ask for advice, and they will be governed by one wind and blown by another, and cannot rely upon themselves. Until you can get so that you can rely upon yourself, you need not expect to succeed.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art Of Money Getting By P. T. Barnum Annotated: Literary Classic