Famous Quotes by P.T. Barnum

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

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness.

Money is in some respects life’s fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

The noblest art is that of making others happy.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season.

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

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

There is no such thing in the world as luck.

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

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

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

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land—it largely increases the product.

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

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

Comfort, the enemy of progress.

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

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

The safest plan is to select the vocation most congenial to your tastes.

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

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.