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P. T. Barnum:The Art of Money Getting, Excerpt 12
P. T. Barnum《The Art of Money Getting》· The Art of Money Getting · Investing
He accepted my offer and remained two years in my New York Museum. He then went to New Orleans and carried on a traveling show business during the summer. To-day he is worth sixty thousand dollars, simply because he selected the right vocation and also secured the proper location. The old proverb says, "Three removes are as bad as a fire," but when a man is in the fire, it matters but little how soon or how often he removes.
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