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

About David Sarnoff

David Sarnoffwas a Russian and American businessman who played an important role in the American history of radio and television. He led RCA for most of his career in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970.

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)

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

David Sarnoff

Russian-born American businessman (1891-1971)