Words matter. These are the best Ted Turner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I didn’t get here for my acting… but I love show business.
I was gonna go broke if I didn’t get things turned around real fast.
The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning’s better.
Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
I like Obama. I don’t know who could do a better job. He’s got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I’d like to see him rally support a little better.
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
All my life people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.
When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you’ve got to slow down a bit.
I didn’t care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you’re truly wireless.
Every few seconds it changes – up an eighth, down an eighth – it’s like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
I mean, there’s no point in sittin’ around and cryin’ about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
I see what keeps people young: work!
I know what I’m having ’em put on my tombstone: ‘I have nothing more to say’.
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
It’s going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
When our time’s up, it’s up. All the money in the world won’t buy you one more day.
I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
Life is like a B-movie. You don’t want to leave in the middle of it but you don’t want to see it again.
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can’t really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work – making an investment in the future of humanity.
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don’t want to make money that way. I don’t want blood money.
If you can get yourself where you’re not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
I’ve had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
I wanted to better inform the world.
When I started ‘CNN,’ I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn’t going to come from me.
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there’s no doubt in my mind but that they would’ve detonated it in New York.
I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I’ve probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I’ve got more experience. But I haven’t really changed. I’m still driven by the same philosophy.
I’m 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I’m a journalist and proud of it.
When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
Just because your ratings are bigger doesn’t mean you’re better.
I’m hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It’s really tough.
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
I don’t watch entertainment. I haven’t watched in years. I want to see serious news.
I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I’m a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they’re already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
