Entrepreneurial Words of Wisdom: P.T. Barnum

Phineas Taylor (P.T.) Barnum was an American businessman and showman who founded a circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was outspoken-- here are some of his quotes:
 

• There's a sucker born every minute
• Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed
• Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!
• Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always 'under the harrow'."
• Men who drive sharp bargains with their customers, acting as if they never expected to see them again, will not be mistaken. They will never see them again as customers. People don't like to pay and get kicked also
• Every crowd has a silver lining
• Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant
• which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done
• Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until your experience shows that you should abandon it
• If I shoot at the sun I may hit a star
• Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, 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