David Sarnoff Quotes

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

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• Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

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  Tags in Breathe

• Seldom is it given to one generation to have such an opportunity to rise again, but now before you is that opportunity in television-a larger, richer, broader opportunity than ever existed in radio.

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

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

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  Tags in Good, Capacity

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

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

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  Tags in Successful

• 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.

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  Topics in Opportunity, Success

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

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  Tags in Brutal

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

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  Tags in Brian

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

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  Topics in Victory

  Tags in Believe

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

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  Topics in Failure, Success

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

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  Tags in Believe, Human

• 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.

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  Tags in Self, Adventure

• 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.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Self, Better

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

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David Sarnoff (16)

Birth:	27th February, 1891
Death:	12th December, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

David Sarnoff was a Belarusian-born American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television. Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970.

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