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    The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
    The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
    The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
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    The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

    By Phineas Taylor Barnum

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    Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 –  April  7,  1891)  was  an  American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer,  remembered  for  promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus  that  became  the  Ringling  Bros. and 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  aims  were  "to  put money in his own coffers."


    Barnum is widely but erroneously credited with coining the phrase  "There's  a  sucker born every minute." Barnum became a small-business  owner  in  his  early twenties,  and  founded  a  weekly newspaper, before moving to New York City  in  1834.  He  embarked  on  an entertainment career, first with a variety troupe  called  "Barnum's  Grand Scientific  and  Musical  Theatre,"  and soon  after  by  purchasing  Scudder's American  Museum,  which  he  renamed after himself. Barnum used the museum as  a  platform  to  promote  hoaxes  and human curiosities. The circus business was the source of much of his enduring fame. 


    He established  "P.  T.  Barnum's Grand  Travelling  Museum,  Menagerie, Caravan  &  Hippodrome,"  a  travelling circus,  menagerie  and  museum  of "freaks,"  which  adopted  many  names over  the  years.  Barnum  wrote  several books,  including  Life  of  P.T.  Barnum (1854),  The  Humbugs  of  the  World (1865), Struggles and Triumphs (1869), and The Art of Money-Getting (1880).


    One  of  Barnum's  more  successful methods  of  self-promotion  was  mass publication  of  his  autobiography. Barnum eventually gave up his copyright to  allow  other  printers  to  sell inexpensive editions. At the end of the 19th  century  the  number  of  copies printed  was  second  only  to  the  New Testament  in  North  America.  (Source: Wikipedia)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeoPard Books
    Release dateJul 6, 2018
    ISBN1518880487
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      The Art of Money Getting - Phineas Taylor Barnum

      About Barnum

      Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 –  April  7,  1891)  was  an  American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer,  remembered  for  promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus  that  became  the  Ringling  Bros. and 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  aims  were  to  put money in his own coffers.

      Barnum is widely but erroneously credited with coining the phrase  There's  a  sucker born every minute. Barnum became a small-business  owner  in  his  early twenties,  and  founded  a  weekly newspaper, before moving to New York City  in  1834.  He  embarked  on  an entertainment career, first with a variety troupe  called  Barnum's  Grand Scientific  and  Musical  Theatre,  and soon  after  by  purchasing  Scudder's American  Museum,  which  he  renamed after himself. Barnum used the museum as  a  platform  to  promote  hoaxes  and human curiosities. The circus business was the source of much of his enduring fame. 

      He established  P.  T.  Barnum's Grand  Travelling  Museum,  Menagerie, Caravan  &  Hippodrome,  a  travelling circus,  menagerie  and  museum  of freaks,  which  adopted  many  names over  the  years.  Barnum  wrote  several books,  including  Life  of  P.T.  Barnum (1854),  The  Humbugs  of  the  World (1865), Struggles and Triumphs (1869), and The Art of Money-Getting (1880).

      One  of  Barnum's  more  successful methods  of  self-promotion  was  mass publication  of  his  autobiography. Barnum eventually gave up his copyright to  allow  other  printers  to  sell inexpensive editions. At the end of the 19th  century  the  number  of  copies printed  was  second  only  to  the  New Testament  in  North  America.  (Source: Wikipedia)

      ART OF MONEY GETTING

      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. In this comparatively new field  there  are  so  many  avenues  of success open, so many vocations which are  not  crowded,  that  any  person  of either sex who is willing, at least for the time being, to engage in any respectable occupation that offers, may find lucrative employment.

      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.  But however easy it may be found to make money,  I  have  no  doubt  many  of  my hearers will agree it is the most difficult thing in the world to keep it. The road to wealth is, as Dr. Franklin truly says, as plain as the road to the mill. It consists simply in expending less than we earn; that seems to be a very simple problem.

      Mr. Micawber,  one  of  those  happy creations of the genial Dickens, puts the case in a strong light when he says that to have an income of twenty pounds per annum,  and  spend  twenty  pounds  and sixpence, is to be the most miserable of men; whereas, to have an income of only twenty pounds, and spend but nineteen

      Pounds and six pence is to be the happiest of mortals. Many of my readers may  say,  we  understand  this;  this  is economy,  and  we  know  economy  is wealth; we know we can't eat our cake and keep it also. Yet I beg to say that perhaps more cases of failure arise from mistakes on this point than almost any other. The fact is, many people think they understand economy when they really do not.

      True economy is misapprehended, and people go through life without properly comprehending what that principle is.

      One says, I have an income of so much and here is my neighbour who has the same; yet every year he gets something ahead and I fall short; why is it? I know all about economy. He thinks he does, but he does not. There are many who think that economy consists in saving cheese-parings and candle-ends, in cutting off two pence from the laundress' bill and doing all sorts of little, mean, dirty things. Economy is not meanness.

      The misfortune is,

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