Howard Stringer Quotes

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• Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
• 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?
• I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
• 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…
• Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
• 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…
• In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.
• Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
• People are going to like 3-D in their family photos.
• Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.
• 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…
• I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN…
• Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a…
• The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries.…
• 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…
• The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…

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