P.T. Barnum — "Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, if necessary, early and …"
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.
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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.
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Advice on hard work and diligence, from 'The Art of Money Getting'.