65 Quotes by Howard Stringer

Launching PlayStation3 is critical and imperative across the entire Sony group. We will galvanize our group-wide resources like never before to ensure its success.

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.

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.

We're between launches in Europe and America, and that just didn't fit the cycle.

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,

While quarterly performance and market share are important, overall performance, together with artist relationships and the development of new and creative talent are paramount, ... Andy is exceptionally well-suited to manage the company in this challenging and ever-changing environment.

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.

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.

We are shattering internal silos ... and reorganizing to become more nimble and to have a focused product lineup.