P.T. Barnum
Showman, circus, hoaxes
Sayings by P.T. Barnum
If I can't be a lion, I'll be a fox.
I have always tried to give the public their money's worth, and something more.
I am not ashamed to say that I have made a good deal of money, and I intend to make more.
The best kind of advertising is word of mouth, but you have to get people talking.
Nobody ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the public.
I have always found that it pays to be a little ahead of the times.
The public wants to be astonished.
If you want to be rich, you must be a showman.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The public is not capable of distinguishing between a genuine article and a spurious one.
I have humbugged the public to their hearts' content.
The road to wealth is open to all.
I have always aimed to be original, and to hit the public in a new place.
The public likes to be gulled.
I was not born for the ordinary affairs of life. I was born for something higher.
There are two roads to success: the road of honest industry and the road of humbug.
The public is always ready to pay for a good show.
The best advertising is that which makes people talk.
I have always been a friend of the people, and I have always tried to please them.
The public loves a good fraud, if it's a good fraud.