David Sarnoff Quotes

This miracle of engineering skill which one day will bring the world to the home also brings a new American industry to serve man's material welfare...Now we add sight to sound.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe. I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does himself.

Much of the time, I sat there with nothing coming in. It seemed that the whole anxious world was attached by my earphones during the seventy-two hours I crouched tensely in the station. I passed the information on to a sorrowing world, and when messages ceased to come in, fell down like a log at my place and slept the clock around.

I felt my responsibility keenly, and weary though I was, could not have slept.

The Titanic disaster brought radio to the front, and also me.

The idea is to bring music into the house by wireless.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears.

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

It is with a feeling of humbleness that I come to the moment of announcing the birth in this country of a new art so important in its implications that it is bound to affect all society.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in men.

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

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize the maximum forces that are within us.

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.

It is a creative force which we must learn to utilize for the benefit of mankind. It is an art which shines like a torch of hope in the troubled world.