P.T. Barnum
Showman, circus, hoaxes
Sayings by P.T. Barnum
The noblest art is that of making others happy.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.
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...
He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff'?
I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall show, but the solid gold will never wear off.
There's a sucker born every minute.
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
The public is a very strange animal, and it is very difficult to catch it by the tail.
Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
The cheapest of all things is to be mean and stingy.
The great art of money-getting consists in knowing how to attract the public by some novel and original device.
I don't believe in humbug; I believe in advertising.
The best thing about money is that it can buy you time.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
The show must go on!
To be a successful showman, you must always be a little ahead of your audience.