The Art of Money Getting P. T. Barnum Money making skills told in humorous yet factual terms. It teaches people how the right vocation can lead to great success. Personal habits such as positivism, persistence, perseverance, determination and care for the comfort of others are treated as positive traits. The Art of Money Getting or The Golden Rules For Making Money is P.T. Barnum's Classic Masterpiece about Money. If you are in Marketing or Advertising, You Should Not Be Without this Book!  WHAT THIS BOOK TEACHES That we are born "free and equal" is a glorious truth in one sense, yet we are not all born equally rich, and we never shall be. One may say; "there is a man who has an income of fifty thousand dollars per annum, while I have but one thousand dollars; I knew that fellow when he was poor like myself; now he is rich and thinks he is better than I am; I will show him that I am as good as he is; I will go and buy a horse and buggy; no, I cannot do that, but I will go and hire one and ride this afternoon on the same road that he does, and thus prove to him that I am as good as he is." My friend, you need not take that trouble; you can easily prove that you are "as good as he is;" you have only to behave as well as he does; but you cannot make anybody believe that you are rich as he is. Besides, if you put on these "airs," add waste your time and spend your money, your poor wife will be obliged to scrub her fingers off at home, and buy her tea two ounces at a time, and everything else in proportion, in order that you may keep up "appearances," and, after all, deceive nobody.