Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by David Sarnoff (American Broadcaster, Businessman)

David Sarnoff (1891–1971) was an American pioneer of commercial radio and television. This “father of American television” was the chairman of the board of the Radio Corporation of America. A foreseer of the commercial possibilities of technical innovations, Sarnoff helped establish network radio broadcasting in the 1920s and led the development of black-and-white television in the 1930s and color television in the 1940s and 1950s.

Born in Uzlyany, near Minsk in southern Russia, now in Belarus, Sarnoff ended his formal education with the eighth grade. His rags-to-riches life began as a wireless operator when he met inventor Guglielmo Marconi in 1906. Envisioning the multiple possibilities of radio, Sarnoff became commercial manager of American Marconi in 1917.

Sarnoff progressed to join the new Radio Corporation of America, the successor to the Marconi Group, in 1919, and became its general manager in 1921 and its president in 1930. He remained chair and chief executive until 1950 and ventured into black and white, and then color, television. In 1926, he founded America’s first broadcasting network, the National Broadcasting Corporation.

Sarnoff also served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during the Second World War as General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s communications consultant and eventually became a brigadier general.

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A life that hasn’t a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Goals, Aspirations

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.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Happiness

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Business

Nobody can be successful if he doesn’t love his work, love his job.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Enjoyment

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Apathy, Contentment

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Mind, The Mind

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.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Goals, Safety, Trying, Aspirations, Enthusiasm, Security

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Death, Danger

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Science

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.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Success & Failure, Success

Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Work

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Miracles

Anything that the human mind can conceive can be produced ultimately.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Mind

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