Niche Quotes

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it:; once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn't.

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

I'm creating my niche. My niche is going to be "shirtless guy."

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

I don't do anything for the money. I don't need to. I could have retired after White Zombie and been just fine. Money doesn't matter. But there is still a good living to be made, even in the niche. The funny thing is, as time goes on, the niche stuff gets bigger and bigger.

Private equity capital in each of those markets Europe and Asia - while those markets have very different characteristics - fills a niche where either strategic investors or the public markets don't go, or don't want to go for some particular reason. I think that's going to continue to be the case going forward.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.

I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product.

Cable is a niche business. If you can own a niche, that can be a very strong business.

I'm interested in anything that deals with our planet, in our planet, outside our planet, the universe, universes, galactic, dimensional, subterranean. That's deep stuff that everybody needs to focus on: What is your niche on this planet? Why are we here? Why are there roaches and water-bugs and all that type of stuff?

Yeah, it's a weird little niche, but by God, it's my niche.

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

I have to say, as a showrunner, being niche-y is kind of a great thing.

We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views.

I think that our strength is actually how niche our product is, and not that it's very commercial and very similar to things that are out there already.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

We live in a niche world.

Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing.

Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

No niche is too small if it's yours.

I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

I think there is a niche for every market.

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

As a studio, you have to have a niche. You have to provide a service and there has to be a reason for your being around.

We remain unconvinced that consumer appetite for mobile TV services exists outside of niche segments.

Showtunes might be able to come back into pop music, which is something we haven't seen since the 50s and 60s. Everything is related to everything else because we're in such a niche industry.

Donald Trump, as a businessman, he's not much of a builder and he's not much of dealmaker and he certainly isn't very good at making expenses line up with income. But he is a marketing genius. He must have seen an empty market niche that no one but him filled.

As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.