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64 Best P.T. Barnum Quotes of All Time To Get Inspired!

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Monday, June 17, 2024

I’m a crazy person 😅

​Not only have I purchased Napoleon Hill’s original Secrets of Success series for $1.5 million… collected hundreds of hours of un-broadcast Earl Nightingale recordings… but I also bought P.T. Barnum’s pocket watch!

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Here’s me opening the box.

Crazy — and I love it so much. It reminds me of what’s possible when you set your mind to something and pursue it with ceaseless passion.

That’s what P.T. Barnum was all about.

One of my favorite stories that illustrates Barnum’s ability to achieve is when he brought the famous Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind to America for a concert tour. Despite Lind being relatively unknown in the United States at the time, Barnum's promotional prowess turned the tour into a massive success.

He created such a frenzy around her arrival that she was greeted by thousands of fans in New York City! The tour grossed over $500,000, a staggering amount for the era, and Lind's performances were consistently sold out. Barnum's innovative marketing techniques, including extensive use of the press and public appearances, made the tour a landmark event in American entertainment history.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur or just someone trying to find your calling in life, Barnum has a lot of wisdom to provide!

Below, I’ve collected some of my favorite quotes from his books and writings — 64 to be exact. And then I’ve organized them by category to make it easier for you to browse.

You might want to put a few of these on your wall 🙂

By the way, you should know that inside my ‘Secrets of Success’ community, you can access our entire library — which includes never-before-published books by Napoleon Hill, unbroadcast recordings from Earl Nightingale, 15 hours of audio books from Dale Carnegie, and even “The Art of Money Getting” by P.T. Barnum (audiobook and ebook).

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P.T. Barnum Quotes About Success and Ambition

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might."

"Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself."

"Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed."

"The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.

"No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience."

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

"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."​

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"When a man is in the right path, he must persevere."

"Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched."

"Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product."

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P.T. Barnum Quotes About Happiness and Laughter

"The noblest art is that of making others happy."

"Laughter is the best medicine. There’s nothing like laughter to sweeten life. Laughter adds a touch of sunshine to even the darkest day."

"To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter."

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"There is no better friend than a frank, an honest, and a truthful friend."

"The truest end of life is to know that life never ends."

"The best charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves."

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P.T. Barnum Quotes About Marketing and Promotion

"Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd."

"I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right."

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"Without publicity, a terrible thing happens: nothing."

"Trust me, they don't know it yet, but they're going to love you."

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P.T. Barnum Quotes About Wealth and Money

"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."

"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."

"True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go."

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"With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it."

"Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience."

"A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained."

"The possession of great wealth ought to be accompanied with a high moral responsibility."

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P.T. Barnum Quotes About Integrity

"Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business."

"The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to ensure success."

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"The foundation of success in life is good health."

"Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests."

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P.T. Barnum Quotes About Motivation

"Every crowd has a silver lining."

"More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing too much."

"If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star."

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"Comfort, the enemy of progress."

"No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else."

"Cultivate the habit of being punctual."

"Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior,' for by living up to it there is no such word as fail."

"Every man’s occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself."

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"Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success."

"Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means."

"Be cautious and bold."

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Miscellaneous P.T. Barnum Quotes

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time."

"As a general thing, the more lavish a man is in his promises, the more unreliable he is in performance."

"The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it."

"There’s no such thing as bad publicity."

"Laughter is the best medicine."

"Every person should have an ambition and set goals."

"Politeness is the art of thinking twice before speaking once."

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"Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow."

"We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good."

"In whatever business you engage, be sure it is profitable and positive."

"When I was born, all the modesty I had was in my head; I took it out, looked at it, laughed, and threw it away."

"As a general thing, the more lavish a man is in his promises, the more unreliable he is in performance."

"Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience."

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"To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar."

"Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success."

"A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to a man than the ninety and nine which he finds in his purse."

"If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize."

"Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain."

"The possession of great wealth ought to be accompanied with a high moral responsibility."

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"There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt."

"The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves."

"The truest end of life is to know that life never ends."

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