Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Miracles
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Business
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Contentment, Apathy
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, Success & Failure
If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good purpose. The machine itself has neither mind nor soul nor moral sense. Only man has been endowed with these godlike attributes. Every age has its destined duty. Ours is to nurture an awareness of those divine attributes and a sense of responsibility in giving them expression.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Science, Love
A life that hasn’t a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Goals, Aspirations
Nobody can be successful if he doesn’t love his work, love his job.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Enjoyment
Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Work
Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Science
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
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: Trying, Safety, Goals, Aspirations, Security, Enthusiasm
Anything that the human mind can conceive can be produced ultimately.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Mind
The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
—David Sarnoff
Topics: Mind, The Mind
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
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