Howard Stringer Quotes

#1. I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

Tom Metzger

#2. 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 little provincial and insular.

Howard Stringer

#3. Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

Howard Stringer

#4. I have to determine whether the joy of craplets is worth preserving.

Howard Stringer

#5. I never set out to do anything unusual or newsworthy. I just like to
study and learn, and I've always been that way.

Nola Ochs

#6. I have to wonder if it isn't more accurate to say that life is a series of trap doors, and you fall through them, one by one, tumbling down and down and down, one hole to the next.

Ben H. Winters

#7. 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.

Howard Stringer

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

Howard Stringer

#9. A CBS spokesman said the network's policy was tightened in September 2006 to forbid contributions to political campaigns. Previously, there was a bit of wiggle room.

Bill Dedman

#10. Decisions are made by those who show up

Aaron Sorkin

#11. Despite our enormous brains and jam-packed libraries, we germ hotels cannot expect to understand absolutely everything.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

Howard Stringer

#13. Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, 'Duck.

Richard Just

#14. 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.

Howard Stringer

#15. 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 Russia and obscure places that the market for movies is going to grow and grow and grow.

Howard Stringer

#16. 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 contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.

Howard Stringer

#17. 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.

Howard Stringer

#18. People are going to like 3-D in their family photos.

Howard Stringer

#19. 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.

Howard Stringer

#20. 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 or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

Howard Stringer

#21. Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

Howard Stringer

#22. Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

Dan Aykroyd

#23. 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.

Howard Stringer

#24. Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.

Howard Stringer

#25. Politics creates an almost endless time horizon into the future ... As governor I had the incredible luxury of being able to dream on a grand scale. And this sense of infinite possibility gives politics its romance.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#26. How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to him. Ammon taught, 'Let us give thanks to (God), for he doth work righteousness forever.' Our degree of gratitude is a measure of our love for him.

Russell M. Nelson

#27. 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?

Howard Stringer

#28. I've played a Nintendo Wii. I don't see it as a competitor. It's more of an expensive niche game device. We're selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it's still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.

Howard Stringer

#29. I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God ... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!'

Howard Stringer

#30. 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.

Howard Stringer