P. T. Barnum

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.

The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it.

Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.