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David Sarnoff

(1891–1971) Entrepreneur

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David Sarnoff was an entrepreneur, best known for Network broadcasting.

Quick Facts About David Sarnoff

Born: February 27, 1891
Died: December 12, 1971
Profession: Entrepreneur
Notable works: Network broadcasting

About David Sarnoff

David Sarnoff was an American businessman who played an important role in the American history of radio broadcasting and television. He led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for most of his career in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by David Sarnoff

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

Brain

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

Competition

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Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

Breathe

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An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

Another man

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

Accomplish

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

Adventure

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It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste…

Art

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

Being successful

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“We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern…

Determine

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as…

Found

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

Atoms

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Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the…

Belief

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Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

Distance

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Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a…

Adventure

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

Doe

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

Being successful

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

Differences

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

Learning

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A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A…

Budgets

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

Brooding

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I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star.

Electrons

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Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a…

Atoms

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

Earth

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Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.

Love

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Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced.

Human mind

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