Author Description

P.T. Barnum; the name alone conjures ideas and imagination.Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, "I am a showman by profession and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me," and his personal aims were "to put money in his own coffers." P. T. Barnum knew how to make money. In this book, he shares the secrets of wealth. Put into practice, you, too, can live well. America is the "Land of Opportunity,." Barnum's secrets can help you enjoy the bounty of our country.I believe every high school and college student should read this book. This book contains the common sense wisdom that will encourage and anable any industrious person to succeed.Barnum is widely, but erroneously, credited with coining the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute."He did, however, say that "every crowd has a silver lining," and acknowledged that "the public is wiser than many imagine.""It was clear to my mind that my proper position in the busy world was not yet reached. I had displayed the faculty of getting money, as well as getting rid of it; but the business for which I was destined...had not yet come to me." P.T. Barnum