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The Art of Money Getting

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00 - Introduction
22:22
01 - Don't Mistake Your Vocation
3:32
02 - Select The Right Location
5:25
03 - Avoid Debt
5:40
04 - Persevere
4:04
05 - Whatever You Do, Do It With All Your Might
8:12
06 - Use The Best Tools
3:07
07 - Don't Get Above Your Business
10:16
08 - Learn Something Useful
1:06
09 - Let Hope Predominate, But Be Not Too Visionary
1:17
10 - Do Not Scatter Your Powers
1:17
11 - Be Systematic
4:41
12 - Read The Newspapers
1:05
13 - Beware Of "Outside Operations"
2:31
14 - Don't Indorse Without Security
4:48
15 - Advertise Your Business
5:05
16 - 'Don't Read The Other Side'
3:38
17 - Be Polite and Kind To Your Customers
3:00
18 - Be Charitable
1:39
19 - Don't Blab
1:11
20 - Preserve Your Integrity
5:01

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The Art of Money Getting is a famous lecture and pamphlet by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), the American showman and businessman whose career as the founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus and as a serial promoter and entrepreneur made him one of the most famous Americans of the nineteenth century.

The lecture sets out Barnum's principles for accumulating wealth, drawing on his own serious career as a serial business success and serial business failure. Barnum had made and lost several fortunes across his long career and his advice reflects the practical wisdom of someone who had experienced both extremes. The principles he advocates include selecting an occupation suited to one's actual abilities, avoiding debt, practicing systematic economy, advertising effectively, and dealing honestly with customers despite his own well-known association with various forms of theatrical humbug.

Barnum's broader writing includes his Autobiography of 1855, which was one of the best-selling books of nineteenth century America. The Art of Money Getting has remained in print continuously since its original publication and is regularly cited in American business and self-improvement literature.

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P. T. Barnum

Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman, businessman, and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding with James Anthony Bailey the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was also an author, publisher, and philanthropist, although he said of himself: "I am a showman by profession ...