Art of Money Getting (version 2)

Before Tony Robbins and Robert Kiyosaki, there was P.T. Barnum. Written by the nineteenth century's most flamboyant businessman, this crisp little volume distills a lifetime of wheeling and dealing into plainspoken rules for acquiring wealth and, crucially, keeping it. Barnum covers everything from the mathematics of debt ('Money is a good servant but a bad master') to the art of pleasing customers, with an engineer's respect for profit and a showman's instinct for what sells. Some advice dates to the gaslight era, yes, but much of it reads like it could have been written last Tuesday. If you've ever wanted to know how the man who owned the Greatest Show on Earth actually made his money, this is it. For readers who enjoy practical wisdom, business history, or old-fashioned common sense.