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Comment by ahartmetz

3 years ago

IIRC from when this book was mentioned earlier, probably on HN, he toured the US giving lectures about getting rich while he was broke.

far be it from PT Barnum to be overly scrupulous, but he seemed to have a problem with getting financially wiped out by fire and built a fortune three of four times over, so it's possible he could've done it twice by the time he did the lectures and just been broke at the moment. He might've been one of the most qualified people around to make a lecture about getting rich.