Henry Mcclure

“Dr. Franklin says "it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

“Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt. There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt. It is a slavish position to get ill, yet we find many a young man, hardly out of his "teens," running in debt. He meets a chum and says, "Look at this: I have got trusted for a new suit of clothes." He seems to look upon the clothes as so much given to him; well, it frequently is so, but, if he succeeds in paying and then gets trusted again, he is adopting a habit which will keep him in poverty through life. Debt robs a man of his self-respect, and makes him almost despise himself.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

“Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt.”
― P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money

“The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.”
― P T Barnum, Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Getting Money