Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
David Sarnoff

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
David Sarnoff

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

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

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

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

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

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
David Sarnoff

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

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


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

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

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

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

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.
David Sarnoff

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