Quotes from David Sarnoff

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

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

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.

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

I regard radio broadcasting as a sort of cleansing instrument for the mind, just as the bathtub is for the body.

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

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

No man can be successful, unless he first loves his work.

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

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

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

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

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 ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.

Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth.

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