Archive for April, 2006
Friday, April 28th, 2006
Select the Right Location - P.T. Barnum
After securing the right vocation, you must be careful to select the proper location. You may have been cut out for a hotel keeper, and they say it requires a genius to “know how to keep a hotel.” You might conduct a hotel like clock-work, and provide satisfactorily for five hundred guests every day; yet, [...]
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
Don’t Mistake Your Vocation - P.T. Barnum
The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes. Parents and guardians are often quite too negligent in regard to this. It is very common for a father to say, for example: “I have five [...]
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
Good Health - Foundation of Success
According to P.T. Barnum, the foundation of success in life is good health; that is the substratum of fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick. He has no ambition; no incentive; no force. Of course, there are those who have bad health [...]
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Friday, April 7th, 2006
Economy - Independance
P.T. Barnum states the following from his work entitled “The Art of Money Getting.”
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 [...]
