Today’s Motivation – P. T. Barnum on Learning

P. T. Barnum on Learning

“Cornelius Vanderbilt began life rowing a boat from Staten Island to New York; he presented our government with a steam ship worth a million of dollars, and died worth fifty million. ’There is no royal road to learning.’ says the proverb, and I must say it is equally true, ‘there is no royal road to wealth.’ But I think there is a royal road to both. The road to leaning is a royal one; the road that enables the student to expand his intellect and add every day to his stock on knowledge, until, in the pleasant process of intellectual growth, he is able to solve the most profound problems, to count the stars, to analyze every atom of the globe, and to measure the firmament this is a regal highway, and it is a only road worth traveling.”

~P. T. Barnum from “The Art of Money Getting”

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