Howard Stringer Sony Quotations

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

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 York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

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.

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.

To our customers Sony no longer represents the only alternative,

We have made promises before but we failed to execute them. We must fight like the Sony warriors that we are.

Andy Lack has executed this very complicated merger between Sony Music and BMG music brilliantly,

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.

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.

Sony and its peers all face tremendous pressure in the marketplace, but we have a sense of urgency and we have a sense of purpose. We can and will compete vigorously.

Sony BMG did not intend to punish the consumer.

Sony BMG wasn't intended on punishing the consumer.

Sony is a global company with 70 percent of its earnings outside Japan and so local politics like that is less clear and appropriate for me to comment on,

The loyalty within Sony is quite extraordinary, and that's a remarkable thing. Some of that has to be sustained because it's part of the Sony spirit.