David Sarnoff Quotes (22 Quotes)

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in radio in the 1920s The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or any one else owes him his livelihood and that he can collect it without labor will wake up one day and find himself working for another boy who did not have that belief and, therefore, earned the right to have others work for him.

What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood

I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star.

It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation