{"id":838,"date":"2013-01-02T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=838"},"modified":"2013-01-02T17:39:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T22:39:03","slug":"p-t-barnum-the-20-maxims-of-money-getting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/838\/orts\/p-t-barnum-the-20-maxims-of-money-getting\/","title":{"rendered":"P.T. Barnum: The 20 Maxims of Money Getting"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Don\u2019t mistake your vocation (i.e. choose a profession you enjoy).<\/li>\n<li>Select the right location (i.e where you can realistically engage in your profession).<\/li>\n<li>Avoid debt.<\/li>\n<li>Persevere.<\/li>\n<li>Whatever you do, do it with all your might.<\/li>\n<li>Depend upon your own personal exertions (i.e. learn your profession).<\/li>\n<li>Use the best tools.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t get above your business (i.e. don\u2019t be above doing the hands-on labor).<\/li>\n<li>Learn something useful (i.e have a trade or skill to fall back on).<\/li>\n<li>Let hope predominate. But be not too visionary (i.e. don\u2019t automatically believe every project will succeed).<\/li>\n<li>Do not scatter your powers (i.e. don\u2019t be a \u201cjack-of-all-trades\u201d and focus on one profession).<\/li>\n<li>Be systematic (i.e set times and places for your work, be organized and punctual, do one thing at a time).<\/li>\n<li>Read the newspapers.<\/li>\n<li>Beware of \u201coutside\u201d operations (i.e. spending speculative venture capital on risky, unknown operations and companies).<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t endorse without security (i.e. don\u2019t give away\/invest money in someone or something, even if you feel safe about it, without some security to protect yourself).<\/li>\n<li>Advertise your business.<\/li>\n<li>Be polite and kind to your customers.<\/li>\n<li>Be charitable.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t blab (i.e. say nothing of your internal operations to others).<\/li>\n<li>Preserve your integrity (i.e. your integrity far outweighs profits so come by profits honestly).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>from <em>The Art of Money Getting<\/em> (1880)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t mistake your vocation (i.e. choose a profession you enjoy). Select the right location (i.e where you can realistically engage in your profession). Avoid debt. Persevere. Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Depend upon your own personal exertions (i.e. learn your profession). Use the best tools. Don\u2019t get above your business (i.e. <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/838\/orts\/p-t-barnum-the-20-maxims-of-money-getting\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orts","tag-there-is-a-mogul-born-every-minute","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}