Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

It's not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.

I think there is a niche for every market.

Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore.

Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.

Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn’t buy this house. First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.

Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base.

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

When the finance or marketing people run a company, innovation stops.

Go find out if you can make your product. Once you make it, stop projecting what's going to happen and go find out whether your product can sell. Find out whether someone is willing to take hard-earned cash out of their pocket and exchange it for your product.

Certainly, the human race can be fickle, and times do change, but overall, the barriers to bringing a product to market - and understanding what 'the market' wants - have remained unchanged.

To any CEO who's skeptical at all, you have to create a social enterprise today; you have to be totally connected with everyone who touches your brand.

I think the challenge for all technology companies is to modify what they're doing to be what the market needs at that point.

There's no point in starting a business unless you're going to make a dramatic difference to other people's lives. So if you've got an idea that's gonna make a big difference to other people's lives, then just get on and do it.

The NBA is going to do what they want to do. They're going to do what's best for them; not what's best for us.

The radio is not show fun, it's show business. It's money.

There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it.

We're not trying to be Amazon, all things to all people.

The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It's understanding who to listen to and why.

Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!

For some companies, going public makes the most sense. For others, remaining private is preferable.