David Sarnoff Quotes

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

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• Success
• Failure

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

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• Science
• Freedom
• Breathe

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.

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• World
• Work
• Live

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

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• Earth
• Miracle

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

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• Believe
• Victory

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

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• Believe
• Mind

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.

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• Experience
• Success
• Opportunity

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

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• Brain

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.

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• Adventure

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

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• Good
• Evil

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

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• Work
• Job

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

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• People
• Competition

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

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• Faith

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

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• Hate
• Advice

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

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

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• Life
• Death