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...
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 ...
ut however easy it may be found to make money, I have no doubt many of my readers will agree it is the most difficult thing in the world to keep it. ... True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go." P. T. Barnum provides 20 rules for the development of character and for personal success. The advice from P. T. Barnum is simple and ageless. You will find it amazing how more than a century later this book can be both relevant and well written.The book is filled with common sense and wisdom the modern world seems to have forgotten. DON'T MISTAKE YOUR VOCATION, SELECT THE...
ut however easy it may be found to make money, I have no doubt many of my readers will agree it is the most difficult thing in the world to keep it. ....
P. T. Barnum, the great American showman of the 19th century, wrote this short book about making and keeping money. He certainly had life experiences that qualify him for the subject--he started a small newspaper in his twenties, bought and transformed a museum into a showplace for curiosities, built a circus empire that gave performances in America and Europe, promoted a performing tour of a singer, fell into debt in the 1850s and pulled himself out by lecture tours, was a mayor, and founded a hospital. Excerpts: "Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set their...
P. T. Barnum, the great American showman of the 19th century, wrote this short book about making and keeping money. He certainly had life experiences ...
P. T. Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty and forthrightness. His exuberant autobiography forms a happy combination of all those traits, revealing the whole story of his world-famous hoaxes and publicity stunts. Here is a pageant of nineteenth-century America's gullibility and thirst for marvels, as told by the master of revels himself. A born storyteller, Barnum recalls his association with Tom Thumb, his audience with Queen Victoria, and his trouble keeping Jenny Lind's angelic image intact during a trying tour. He tells of...
P. T. Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty and forthrightness. His exuberant autobiograph...
