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
japan fire workforce
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
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.
focused internal product
We are shattering internal silos ... and reorganizing to become more nimble and to have a focused product lineup.
attractive connect fierce forth services
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.
advantage base enormous
With the installed base of PlayStation, we do think we have an enormous advantage.
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To our customers Sony no longer represents the only alternative,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.