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About P.T. Barnum's The Art of Money Getting - Fully Annotated for the Modern Reader

" Fortune always favors the brave !" Are you ready to master money? One of the richest and most famous men in the world, P.T. Barnum wrote, " Money is in some respects like fire ; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master ." This book contains his twenty golden rules for making money and living well . Phineas Taylor "P.T." Barnum was the greatest American showman of all time , father of the sensational spectacle , ringmaster of the celebrity circus . His ventures were many and varied, from orchestrating grand concerts to exhibiting lurid hoaxes , but they never failed to capture and hold the public imagination in an iron grip . In his rollercoaster ride of a life, he made and lost millions — and then made millions more . Few people in history have made such a lifelong study of making money or have possessed such prodigious experience and expertise doing so . " The Art of Money Getting " started as one of Barnum’s phenomenally popular lectures and was first published in book form in 1880. Its wisdom on the getting — and the keeping — of money is timeless. Every word is as valuable today as when it was written . This new edition is fully annotated for the modern reader by publisher and author Rick Carlile with explanations , historical context , and commentary . It represents the ultimate way for the 21st-century reader to access and fully understand the most concise , simple , and effective guide to becoming and staying rich ever written. This book is not for those blessed with generational wealth, born with a silver spoon in their mouths. It is a blueprint for the rest of us who know the value of money, having had to work for it, and who now seek a path to become its master . As Barnum wrote, "The poor boys get rich , and the rich boys get poor ."