Claude C. Hopkins
The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.Collection: Science
Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselvesCollection: Selfish
Almost any questions can be answered,cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that's he way to answer them - not by arguments around a tableCollection: Campaigns
Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applauseCollection: Writing
The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.Collection: Purpose
Don't think of people in the mass. That gives you a blurred view.Collection: Thinking
The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around itCollection: Writing
Address the people you seek, and them onlyCollection: People
Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentivesCollection: Curiosity
Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduringCollection: Psychology
The purpose of a headline is to pick out people you can interest. You wish to talk to someone in a crowd. So the first thing you say is, "hey there, Bill Jones" to get the right persons attention.so it is in n advertisementCollection: People
Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer are forgotten.Collection: Forgotten
The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.Collection: Winning
The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.Collection: Business
Genius is the art of taking painsCollection: Art
Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.Collection: Ducks
Picture what others wish to be, not what they may be nowCollection: Wish
Changing people's habits is very expensiveCollection: People
The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destinationCollection: Advertising
Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exactCollection: Advertising
Most national advertising is done without justification. It is merely presumed to pay. A little test might show a way to multiply returnsCollection: Return
People don't buy from clowns.Collection: Wise
On most lines, making a sale without making a convert does not count for much. Sales made by conviction - by advertising - are likely to bring permanent customers. People who buy through casual recommendations often do not stickCollection: People
Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible wayCollection: Writing
If a claim is worth making, make it in the most impressive way.Collection: Way
In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disasterCollection: Opinion
Never be led in new paths by the blindCollection: Path
We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn how to win one.Collection: Winning
The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take actionCollection: Long
Advertising is much like war, minus the venomCollection: War
This is no lazy mans fieldCollection: Lazy
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you makeCollection: Writing
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subjectCollection: Writing
Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.Collection: Writing
The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specificCollection: Often Is
The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interestCollection: Art
Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow, shortening life, diminishing memory, understanding, and the very heart.Collection: Memories
Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you wantCollection: Sacrifice
Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.Collection: Believe
Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.Collection: Writing
A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some cautionCollection: Taken
The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.Collection: Writing
Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be follyCollection: Long
Whatever claim you use to gain attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.Collection: Writing
People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefittedCollection: Bored
Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a readerCollection: Levels
No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their valueCollection: Taken
One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospectsCollection: Writing
The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never knowCollection: Writing
Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.Collection: Oratory