Today’s Motivation – Preserve Your Integrity

Preserve Your Integrity

According to P.T., and many others, there is nothing wrong in earning a living and building wealth. It must be done, though, with integrity for there is a greater good being served.

“The history of money-getting, which is commerce, is a history of civilization, and wherever trade has flourished most, there, too, have art and science produced the noblest fruits. In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them, in great measure, are we indebted for our institutions of learning and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.”

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

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Today’s Motivation – Advertise Your Business

Advertise Your Business

“He must, of course, have a really good article, and one which will please his customers; anything spurious will not succeed permanently because the public is wiser than many imagine. Men and women are selfish, and we all prefer purchasing where we can get the most for out money and we try to find out where we can most surely do so.”
“A French writer says, ‘The reader of a newspaper does not see the first mention of an ordinary advertisement; the second insertion he sees, but does not read; the third insertion he reads; the fourth insertion, he looks at the price; the fifth insertion, he speaks of it to his wife; the sixth insertion, he is ready to purchase, and the seventh insertion, he purchases.’ Your object in advertising is to make the public understand what you have got to sell, and if you have not the pluck to keep advertising, until you have imparted that information, all the money you have spent is lost.”
~P. T. Barnum from “The Art of Money Getting”

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Today’s Motivation – Do Not Scatter Your Powers

Do Not Scatter Your Powers

It amazes me the advice that P.T. Barnum gives. It is as sound today as it was then.

“Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until your experience shows you that you should abandon it.”

“Many a fortune has slipped through a man’s fingers because he was engaged in too many occupations at a time. There is good sense in the old caution against having too many irons in the fire at once.”

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

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Today’s Motivation – P.T. on Excellence

P.T. on Excellence

Excellence must be a part of everything you do every day. Be reminded of the rarity of excellence and celebrate mightily when it is achieved.

“The great ambition should be to be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.

The college student who was about to graduating, said to an old lawyer:

‘I have not yet decided which profession I will follow. Is your profession full?’

‘The basement is much crowded, but there is plenty of room up-stairs’ was the witty and truthful reply.”

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

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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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Today’s Motivation - Depend upon your own personal exertions.

Depend upon your own personal exertions.

Does luck play significantly into one’s success? Here’s what P. T. has to say on the subject.

Depend upon your own personal exertions.
“There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and find another to-morrow, and so on, day after day. He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it. ‘Like causes produce like effects.’ If a man adopts the proper methods to be successful, ‘luck’ will not prevent him. If he does succeed, there are reasons for it, although, perhaps, he may not be able to see them.”

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

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Today’s Motivation – Whatever you do, do it with all your might.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might.

One could attribute P. T. Barnum’s success to the personal development standards we use today. Focused effort directed at your desired result has stood the test of time.

“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 don 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.”

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

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Today’s Motivation – P. T. on Perseverance

P. T. Barnum on Perseverance

Steadfast in pursuit of one’s dreams and ideals, action fuels perseverance and P.T. nails it again.

“When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.”

“If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize. Remember the proverb of Solomon: ‘He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.’ ”

“Until you can get so that you can rely upon yourself, you need not expect to succeed.”

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

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Today’s Motivation – P.T. on Avoiding Debt

P.T. on Avoiding Debt

Especially now when credit is so easily attained and such a temptation a word from the past rings true even today.

“Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master. When you have it mastering you; when interest is constantly piling up against you, it will keep you down in the worst kind of slavery. But let money work for you, and you have the most devoted servant in the world. “

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

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Today’s Motivation – Intended Vocation

Intended Vocation

Everyone of us is called to a particular vocation, called to us by our natural inclinations. Success is easier to come by when the call is answered without reservation.

“Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.”

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

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Today’s Motivation – P. T. on tobacco and alcohol

P. T. on tobacco and alcohol

Even in his day P. T. Barnum wrote of the adverse affects of the indulgences of tobacco and alcohol. It seems the nature of being human hasn’t changed much in a century and a half. 

“Another perilous feature is that this artificial appetite, like jealousy, ‘grows by what it feeds on;’ when you love that which is unnatural, a stronger appetite is created for the hurtful thing than the natural desire for what is harmless.”

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

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Today’s Motivation – The Laws of Nature

The Laws of Nature

Phineas Taylor (P. T.) Barnum (1810 – 1891) was an American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician. He is remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Barnum is widely but erroneously credited with coining the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute." What he said was more closely to “There is a customer born every minute.”

We focus here on his insightful writings.

“The nearer we keep to the laws of nature, the nearer we are to good health, and yet how many persons there are who pay no attention to natural laws, but absolutely transgress them, even against their own natural inclination.”

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

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