Archive for July, 2006
Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Advertise your Business - P.T. Barnum
We all depend, more or less, upon the public for our support. We all trade with the public–lawyers, doctors, shoemakers, artists, blacksmiths, showmen, opera singers, railroad presidents, and college professors. Those who deal with the public must be careful that their goods are valuable; that they are genuine, and will give satisfaction. When you get [...]
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Don’t Endorse Without Security - P.T. Barnum
I hold that no man ought ever to indorse a note or become security for any man, be it his father or brother, to a greater extent than he can afford to lose and care nothing about, without taking good security. Here is a man that is worth twenty thousand dollars; he is doing a [...]
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
Beware of “Outside Operations” - P.T. Barnum
We sometimes see men who have obtained fortunes, suddenly become poor. In many cases, this arises from intemperance, and often from gaming, and other bad habits. Frequently it occurs because a man has been engaged in “outside operations,” of some sort. When he gets rich in his legitimate business, he is told of a grand [...]
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
Stay Connected & Informed/Read the Newspapers
P.T. Barnum said “Always take a trustworthy newspaper, and thus keep thoroughly posted in regard to the transactions of the world. He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species. In these days of telegraphs and steam, many important inventions and improvements in every branch of trade, are being made, and he [...]
