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There is a fool born every minute
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
Every crowd has a silver lining.
Whatever you do, do it ardently.
The noblest art is that of making others happy
With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.
Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.
There's a sucker born every minute.
Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.
Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.
Exposing an illusion is not the same as revealing a truth
He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
There's one born every minute.
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only 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.
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
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.
The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it.
Writing lives forever, while you may not.
I never liked to work, I mean manual work.
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.
The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.
There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.
Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.
The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.
No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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.
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
Comfort is the enemy of progress.
When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.
There's no such thing as bad publicity,
Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.
If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.
WHATEVER YOU DO, DO IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. The old proverb is full of truth and meaning, "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." Many a man acquires a fortune by doing his business thoroughly, while his neighbor remains poor for life, because he only half does it. Ambition, energy, industry, perseverance, are indispensable requisites for success in business. Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.
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.
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.
Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue.
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.
The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.
Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
Instead of spending money, I earned it.
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes more suffering. Give the whole dose, and the cure will be certain and decisive.
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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.
In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
Without promotion, something terrible happens ... nothing!
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
OLD GRIZZLY ADAMS. [37-*] James C. Adams, or "Grizzly Adams," as he was generally termed, from the fact of his having captured so many grizzly bears, and encountered such fearful perils by his unexampled daring, was an extraordinary character. For many years a hunter and trapper in the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains, he acquired a recklessness which, added to his natural invincible courage, rendered him truly one of the most striking men of the age. He was emphatically what the English call a man of "pluck." In 1860, he arrived in New York with his famous collection of California animals, captured by himself, consisting of twenty or thirty immense grizzly bears, at the head of which stood "Old Sampson" - now in the American Museum - wolves, half a dozen other species of bear, California lions, tigers, buffalo, elk, etc., and Old Neptune, the great sea-lion, from the Pacific.
No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.
How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?
There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.
I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.
Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.
We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.
If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.