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The Art of Money Getting: "The Art of Money Getting" is not a get-rich-quick manual, but a masterful guide on building wealth with absolute integrity. The legendary entrepreneur shares twenty golden rules that remain highly relevant today. Instead of simple business tricks, Barnum offers unwavering principles: avoiding debt at all costs, persevering with tenacity, being meticulous, and maintaining an impeccable character.

P. T. Barnum, the great American showman of the 19th century, wrote this short book about making and keeping money. He certainly had life experiences that qualify him for the subject--he started a small newspaper in his twenties, bought and transformed a museum into a showplace for curiosities, built a circus empire that gave performances in America and Europe, promoted a performing tour of a singer, fell into debt in the 1850s and pulled himself out by lecture tours, was a mayor, and founded a hospital.