The Art of Money Getting | P T Barnum | Full Audiobook

The art of money getting or golden rules for making money by PT Barnum. In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. In this comparatively new field, there are so many avenues for success open, so many vocations which

are not crowded, that any person of either sex who is willing, at least for the time being, to engage in any respectable occupation that offers may find lucrative employment. Those who really desire to attain an independence have only to set their minds upon it and adopt the proper means as they do in regard to any other object

which they wish to accomplish and the thing is easily done. But however easy it may be found to make money, I have no doubt many of my hearers will agree it is the most difficult thing in the world to keep it. The road to wealth is, as Dr. Franklin truly says, as plain as the road to the

mill. It consists simply in expending less than we earn. That seems to be a very simple problem. Mr. Macccabber, one of those happy creations of the genial Dickens, puts the case in a strong light when he says that to have annual income of 20 perom and to spend 206 is to be the most miserable of men. Whereas to

have an income of only 20 and spend but£196 is to be the happiest of mortals. Many of my readers may say, "We understand this. This is economy, and we know economy is wealth. We know we can't eat our cake and keep it also." Yet, I beg to say that perhaps more cases of

failure arise from mistakes on this point than almost any other. The fact is, many people think they understand economy when they really do not. True economy is misapprehended and people go through life without properly comprehending what that principle is. One says, "I have an income of so much and here's my neighbor who has the same.