Samir Husni Quotations

If you want to start a magazine and survive, find a niche that no one is serving.

His magazines are a perfect example of when marketing and journalism merge into one entity. I know a lot of people in the media hate his guts, but it's a matter of jealousy. I think he's doing a marvelous job.

It's getting easier and easier to start a magazine, but it's harder and harder to keep it running. The reality is after you start a magazine, you are hit by the big reality that there is no money coming in and no readers.

There's an inherent fear in this country of pictures of naked men. We've been trained to look at pictures of naked women, but we haven't been trained yet to look at pictures of naked men.

The magazine is way too varied and way too skimpy to offer anything that the readers will buy issue after issue,

Nobody pays ahead of time. You can have a contract; if you file for bankruptcy, it all becomes meaningless.

When people see themselves in his pages, they see a reflection of their upscale lifestyle. It puffs their ego -- he's making customers for life.

If they really believe in their Web sites, then why do I need a magazine, and isn't it just a vehicle to drive me to the Web? Sooner or later I'll just get my fill from the Web.

The problem all these magazines have is that they get lost in the middle. If you're really spiritual and religious, you want the full dose. If not, you want the other extreme. Trying to have the middle road has never worked in the magazine publishing business.

It's an amazing thing, a big trend sweeping the country in so-called red states and college campuses, where students are becoming more conservative and more spiritual, but want to stay on top of the trends. The problem all these magazines have is that they get lost in the middle. If you're really spiritual and religious, you want the full dose. If not, you want the other extreme. Trying to have the middle road has never worked in the magazine publishing business.