A lecture-style essay by P. T. Barnum offering practical advice on acquiring and keeping money. It stresses thrift, industry, and discipline, drawing on Benjamin Franklin and Dickens's Mr. Micawber. Worth listening to for its plain, timeless principles of personal finance.
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THE ART OF MONEY GETTING or GOLDEN RULES FOR MAKING MONEY By P.T. Barnum In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. In this comparatively new field there are so many avenues of success open, so many vocations which are not crowded, that any person of either sex who is willing, at least for the time being, to engage in any respectable occupation that offers, may find lucrative employment. Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done. But
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