Writing style
Conversational · Direct
Apple BooksArt of Money Getting
Business and economics
- Print length
- 112 pagesDover Publications, Incorporated, 2019
Description
P. T. Barnum distills his ideas about earning and preserving money into a compact series of practical maxims. Drawing on his career as an entrepreneur and showman, he argues that financial success depends less on sudden luck than on choosing suitable work, living below one’s means, avoiding debt, and persisting through setbacks. He also considers the commercial value of advertising, attentive service, reliable associates, and a reputation for integrity. The advice joins personal conduct to business judgment, treating wasteful habits and poor self-discipline as threats to income no matter how much a person earns. Written in a direct, anecdotal style, the book presents money-making as a sustained practice of prudence, effort, and credibility.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Brisk
Tone
Earnest
Structure
Argumentative
Focus
Ideas · Information
Emotional intensity
1 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Incorporated
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780486836133
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