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1 Money does not buy happiness or security. 2John Ringling, one of the five brothers of the Ringling Brot
Circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. "For over forty years, he worked ha
circuses, and imported new acts. 4In the 1920s, he was rated as
at the family enterprise, bought up smaller
of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5Over 5,000 people were
on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 5At the time of his
death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7His carefully
built circus empire passed into
alien hands. 8All those years of work had turned to dust.