90 Quotes by P.T. Barnum

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves. Promiscuous almsgiving, without inquiring into the worthiness of the applicant, is bad in every sense. But to search out and quietly assist those who are struggling for themselves, is the kind that “scattereth and yet increaseth.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

Let your motto then always be ‘Excelsior’, for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

There is a fool born every minute.

But however mysterious is nature, however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science, the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.