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...
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"I am not a philanthropist. I am a showman. But I believe in doing good while doing well."
"I am by nature a 'speculator.' I love to speculate."
"I have always made it a rule to give people more than they expect for their money."
"The great art of money-getting consists in knowing how to attract the public."
"Nobody ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the public."
American showman and Barnum & Bailey Circus co-founder, whose autobiography popularized Gilded Age commercial spectacle. Closely associated with James Anthony Bailey (his circus business partner). For an intellectual contrast, see Mark Twain, American author and Gilded Age satirist — Twain's The Gilded Age (1873, with Charles Dudley Warner) named the entire era of corrupt commercial spectacle Barnum embodied — Twain's later writing repeatedly attacked Barnum-style hucksterism as the era's moral disease.
Philosophy on luck vs. effort, from 'The Art of Money Getting'.
Date: c. 1880
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