Claude C. Hopkins Quotes

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far.

Claude C. Hopkins

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• I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Game
  • Decisions
  • Stock

• How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Man

• The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Home
  • Path
  • Hiking

• Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Education
  • Style
  • English

• Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Important
  • Women
  • Respect

• Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Man

• I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Touching
  • Originally

• I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Parent

• I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Church

• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
  • Food
  • Famous

• I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Very
  • Sensitive

• My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Family
  • Very
  • Religions

• The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Action
  • Lost
  • President

• I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

  

  Os Guinness
  • America
  • City
  • Christian

• I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Music
  • Different
  • Reality

• There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

  

  Idris Elba
  • Character
  • Man
  • Black

• “I live in a constellation of intimates, and the shape of us is a family. We touch base and check in, with each other and also—I am so gratified to report—they sometimes check in with one another. Correspondences have sprung up and friendships have started to form beyond my influence. Family has begun to take on a transitive property as well.”

  

  S. Bear Bergman
  • Family
  • Friendship
  • Property

• In my neighborhood, there are stray goats everywhere, and, someone owns it. Someone has a farm full of goats. At daytime, they just let them loose, but then at nighttime, they just come back. So, it's like, in daytime, the whole neighborhood is just filled with goats walking around.

  

  Rich Brian
  • Someone
  • Goats
  • Nighttime

• When I did Nicholas Nickelby originally, that was a co-production between the new Channel 4, Polygram in Europe and Mobil Oil in America, and I have been involved in working on co-productions for years on both sides of the Atlantic and that's very much at the core of what Playground is doing. So marrying, finding projects that can be co-produced and can be produced using the very best talent from both sides of the Atlantic that's absolutely right at the center of what Playground is doing.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Years
  • Sides
  • Projects

• I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Myself

• The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Advertising
  • Oil