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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Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
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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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The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.
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Andy Lack has executed this very complicated merger between Sony Music and BMG music brilliantly,
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exceptionally well-suited to manage the company in this challenging and ever-changing environment.
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People forget it took 10 years for color ( TV ) to get across the country.
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Sony?s brand is one of the company?s greatest assets, ... Andy will work toward creating a brand personality unique to Sony, one that reflects all aspects of our business.
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Sony is a global company with 70 percent of its earnings outside Japan and so local politics like that is less clear and appropriate for me to comment on,
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Sony BMG wasn't intended on punishing the consumer.
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Sony BMG did not intend to punish the consumer.
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Sony and its peers all face tremendous pressure in the marketplace, but we have a sense of urgency and we have a sense of purpose. We can and will compete vigorously.
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I think if we're going to sell these new goods and services to the public, we first have the obligation not to mention the bottom-line imperative but to explain them clearly, ... That's the first step toward simplification. Something that's genuinely easy to use is also genuinely easy to talk about using.
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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.