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"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 make

Claude C. Hopkins's Popular Quotes

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 t…

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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…

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Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

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The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.

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Don't think of people in the mass. That gives you a blurred view.

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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 gre…

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Address the people you seek, and them only

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Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

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Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and conv…

- Claude C. Hopkins