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
Howard Stringer quotes about
years america world
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.
technology glasses introducing-new
When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, 'I don't want to buy that.' There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.
home russia world
When the digital world is really here, movies can be disseminated from satellite direct to homes and direct to small theaters in Mongolia and northern Russia and obscure places that the market for movies is going to grow and grow and grow.
technology understanding contentment
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.
golden-days age evening
I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.
running ideas sony
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
home entertainment vacuums
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.
teacher years class
I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
technology together definitions
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?
years lasts alternatives
Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
customers longer represents sony
To our customers Sony no longer represents the only alternative,
achieve breaking existing goals highly maintained structure walls
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,
beginning connected devices directly powerful smaller
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.
change company corporate culture dynamic everybody gets growth hard known lives move people revenue senior size sony
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.