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What if getting ahead begins not with earning more, but with choosing the right work?
In The Art of Money Getting, P. T. Barnum turns his experience as a showman and businessman into plain advice. His short chapters each centre on a rule: choose work that fits, depend on yourself, and spend less than you earn. Money matters here, but so do effort, judgment, and the habits you bring to work.
Barnum writes with jokes, stories of people he knows, and strong opinions. He links advertising with customer care, and financial success with health, honesty, and a good name. His advice offers a clear view of nineteenth-century business thinking, while asking questions that matter when you start a career or build a business.
What you’ll discover
- Work that fits you Consider Barnum’s argument that the wrong vocation can hold back a capable person.
- Effort with a purpose Explore his call to rely on yourself and give your work your full strength.
- Spending within your means Examine his firm rule of spending less than you earn and avoiding debt.
- Customers and public attention See why Barnum pairs making a business known with treating its customers kindly.
- More than money Discover why health, honesty, and a good name belong in his account of success.
Who will love it
For anyone starting a business or a career, and readers who love plain, story-filled advice from a working entrepreneur on earning money, avoiding debt and treating customers well.
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- Choose the work that fits you
- Depend on yourself and keep going
- Work with all your might, in order
- Live within your means and avoid debt
- Advertise well and treat customers kindly
- Guard health, honesty and your good name
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L’Art de gagner de l’argent
by P. T. Barnum · 1880
Barnum shares a showman's rules for earning and keeping money while guarding your health, honesty and good name.
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The Art of Money Getting is a short book of practical advice by P. T.
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Choose the work that fits you
Barnum asks you to choose a vocation that suits you. He says that many people fail because they are in the wrong line of work, not because they lack ability. A man who has a gift for one trade and spends his life in another is fighting his own nature. So the first step to making money is to look honestly at what you do well and what you enjoy.
He draws on what he saw in the people around him. Some men, he says, are born with a feel for trade. Others are better as farmers, teachers or craftsmen. Success needs a match between the person and the task, and a man should not be pushed into a job only because his father held it or because it looks respectable.
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What is The Art of Money Getting about?
It is a short book of practical advice on earning and keeping money. Barnum gives rules on choosing work, perseverance, avoiding debt, advertising, customer service and personal character, drawing on his own business career.
When was The Art of Money Getting written?
Barnum published it in 1880, when he was an old and wealthy man. It draws on his experience in museums and shows.
What does money is like fire mean?
Barnum means that money is a useful servant when you control it and a harmful master when it controls you. He uses the idea to argue against debt, waste and greedy speculation.
The author
P. T. Barnum
1810–1891 · American showman and autobiographer
P. T. Barnum was the American showman who built the greatest entertainment empire of the nineteenth century, from his famous museum to the circus that bore his name. The Art of Money Getting distills his hard-won rules for earning and keeping wealth.
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