David Sarnoff Quotes

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• 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…
• The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
• The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
• 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…
• Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people
• We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not…
• Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
• No man can be successful, unless he first loves his work.
• Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a telegraph key in…
• A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.
• Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth.
• I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
• The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory....
• Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
• It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.
• Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.
• An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.
• Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or any…
• Anything that the human mind can conceive can be produced ultimately.
• At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe…

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