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P.T. Barnum Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“When was the last time you smiled? Or had a good laugh? A real laugh.”
— P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman
Tagged: Laughter, Happiness
“My father was treated like dirt. I was treated like dirt. My children won't be.”
— P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman
Tagged: Parenting, Creating A Better Future
“Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land—it largely increases the product.”
— P.T. Barnum, P. T. Barnum- The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money
Tagged: Advertising, Genuine Article, Manure, Analogies
“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, P. T. Barnum- The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money
Tagged: plan, Career, Vocation
“Hyperbole isn't the worst crime. Men suffer more from imagining too little than too much.”
— P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman
Tagged: Hyperbole, Dreaming Big
“The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.”
— P.T. Barnum, P. T. Barnum- The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money
Tagged: Knowldege, Business, Success
“Money is, in some respects, like fire. It is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.”
— P.T. Barnum, P. T. Barnum- The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money
Tagged: Money, Fire, Servant, Master
“The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes—or pretends to believe—that everything and everybody are humbugs.”
— P.T. Barnum, Barnum's Humbugs of the World
Tagged: Humbugs, Quacks, Con Men
“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, P. T. Barnum- The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money
Tagged: Success, Health, Happiness, Fortune
“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.'”
— P.T. Barnum, P. T. Barnum- The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money
Tagged: perseverance, Effort, No Stone Unturned, Ambition, Success, Business, Fortune
“Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.”
— P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman
Tagged: crowds, Attention
“You don't need everyone to love you. Just a few good people!”
— P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman
Tagged: Quality Over Quantity, Friendships
“You are beautiful. You are unique.”
— P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman
Tagged: compliments, beauty
“Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. Now it was a diplomatist—that is, a practical manager of one kind of government matters—who invented that wonderful phrase—a whole world full of humbug in half-a-dozen words—that 'Language was given to us to conceal our thoughts. 'It was another diplomatist, who said 'An ambassador is a gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 'But need I explain to my own beloved countrymen that there is humbug in politics? Does anybody go into a political campaign without it? are no exaggerations of our candidate’s merits to be allowed? no depreciations of the other candidate? Shall we no longer prove that the success of the party opposed to us will overwhelm the land in ruin? Let me see. Leaving out the two elections of General Washington, eighteen times that very fact has been proved by the party that was beaten, and immediately we have not been ruined, notwithstanding that the dreadful fatal fellows on the other side got their hands on the offices and their fingers into the treasury.”
— P.T. Barnum, Barnum's Humbugs of the World
Tagged: Politics, Government, George Washington, Language, Ambassadors, Diplomats
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