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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
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People are going to like 3-D in their family photos.
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Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.
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For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy.