David Sarnoff's Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.