Howard Stringer Quotes (29 Quotes)

I have never actually met any Japanese politicians and I seem to be doing fine. We look forward to a continuing strong relationship with China in many years to come and growing our business.

Although our electronics businesses are under real pressure today, we firmly believe in its future prospects and potential.

No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.

There's no question that a format war is not a good idea.

When a company gets to be the size of Sony and revenue growth slows, it makes it very hard for young, dynamic people to move up the corporate ladder. How you change that in a culture where everybody has known each other for most of their working lives is the task, especially at the senior level.

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'

The walls that impeded communications have to come down and we have to focus RD on products that are most likely to yield rewards.

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.

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

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.

In the digital age, content lends both brain and muscle to our electronics business,

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.

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.

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.

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?

Though best remembered for creating one of the great film heroes of all time, his talents transcend typecasting, ... His body of work not only stands the test of time, but illuminates a career more extraordinary than James Bond himself.

Andy Lack has executed this very complicated merger between Sony Music and BMG music brilliantly,

The PS3 is only the beginning for cell, ... New intelligent devices will be powered my smaller and more powerful processors and will be directly connected with one another.

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,

Sonys brand is one of the companys greatest assets, ... Andy will work toward creating a brand personality unique to Sony, one that reflects all aspects of our business.

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.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

Software has been designed inside those independent silos, with a tendency for repetition. Now we have the ability to coordinate software development... We have time with the PSP, and the video revolution, so that nobody else will slip by us.

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.

Silo walls between business units that impede cooperation and communication need to come down,

We need to convince investors ... that we are going to execute on these targets and take them very seriously,

exceptionally well-suited to manage the company in this challenging and ever-changing environment.

People forget it took 10 years for color ( TV ) to get across the country.

No other content company has such a complete understanding of technology, and no other technology company has Sony's insight into content.