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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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!'
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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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This is a tremendous win for movie lovers everywhere.
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Launching PlayStation3 is critical and imperative across the entire Sony group. We will galvanize our group-wide resources like never before to ensure its success.
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He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him.
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Staying ahead of this curve by offering the consumer truly differentiated products where we can maintain our standing as a premium brand is a fundamental strategic imperative. We need to focus selectively and aggressively on being the No. 1 consumer electronics and entertainment company on the planet.
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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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The loyalty within Sony is quite extraordinary, and that's a remarkable thing. Some of that has to be sustained because it's part of the Sony spirit.
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Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
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Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?
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I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
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You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.
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Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.