Howard Stringer
Howard Stringer
Sir Howard Stringeris a Welsh-American businessman. He served as chairman of the board, chairman, president and CEO of Sony Corporation. He is also the head of the board of trustees of the American Film Institute and now serves as a non-executive director of the BBC...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 February 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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With the installed base of PlayStation, we do think we have an enormous advantage.
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We're between launches in Europe and America, and that just didn't fit the cycle.
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Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.
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The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices. We need our content to make our services as attractive as Apple's or Amazon's or Microsoft's. We're in a brave new world of fierce competition.
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I've played a Nintendo Wii. I don't see it as a competitor. It's more of an expensive niche game device. We're selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it's still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.
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We are going to achieve our goals by breaking down the existing silo walls and eliminating the highly decentralized structure we've maintained in the past,
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Apple would not have sold its devices if they didn't have their agreements with music companies. Sony did not do that, even though we own the music business.
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In the digital age, content lends both brain and muscle to our electronics business,
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In a company where jobs were for life, it created competition that made Sony the great company it is, ... It created artificial competition, which you needed.
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While quarterly performance and market share are important, overall performance, together with artist relationships and the development of new and creative talent are paramount, ... Andy is exceptionally well-suited to manage the company in this challenging and ever-changing environment.
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Andy Lack has executed this very complicated merger between Sony Music and BMG music brilliantly,
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The walls that impeded communications have to come down and we have to focus R&D on products that are most likely to yield rewards.
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Although our electronics businesses are under real pressure today, we firmly believe in its future prospects and potential.
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There was not much love lost between electronics and the movie company because 10 years ago, the movie company was busy losing money and the electronics company was very angry about that, ... The technology people said, 'Those people in Hollywood are spending all the money!'