David Sarnoff Quotes

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

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

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.

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