Ted Turner Quotes (48 Quotes)

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Women I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage I had a boat named Courageous.

If I only had a little humility I would be perfect.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

We had a president of the United States who had been out of the country but once before he was elected. There's been a lot since.

If I was doing it over again I wouldn't have done it, but I can't shoot them now that they're here.

I don't know what the deal is ... I told my caddie, 'Tomorrow, you line me up,'

We've still got a lot of people alive and houses still standing, ... Hopefully global warming can still be mitigated, but we have got to take a lot of steps. We have to move fast. And we have to move now.

We are unaware of any fraudulent use of Ted Turner's credit cards or bank statements.

It's just hypocrisy in my opinion for us, with our 30,000 nuclear weapons, to tell other small countries -- some small countries, it's OK for others I don't think we've ever said anything about Israel's nuclear weapons -- but I don't see how we can say anything about anybody when we've got so many ourselves.

It is after much deliberation that I have decided not to stand for re-election at the annual meeting. I have enjoyed working with (TW chairman and CEO) Dick Parsons, as well as the other board members and the management team. I wish Dick and the company every success.

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.

I consider this movement part of the human rights movement, ... Everybody is entitled to an equal chance in life. ... I'm going to keep pressing so everyone has an equal chance in the world. There's still a lot of work to do, and we'll keep doing it.

Stopping terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons boils down to one top priority stopping them from getting nuclear bomb-making materials,

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

I admire Steve Case's decision to put our company and its employees first, and I am delighted that he will remain on the board and be active because frankly, we really need his experience and vision.

I pledged to the U.N. that I'm going to try and raise additional funds from other sources as well, to get other wealthy individuals to contribute, because there's no reason why we can't raise lots of money... The world is just awash in money right because of the markets,

The mind is just another muscle.

In 20 short years, by all the surveys, we became the world's most respected news source. The New York Times had been there for 100 years. We did it in 20,

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Mr. Parsons, AOLTW CEO, views Ted as a key member of the management team.

I would certainly hope that the new pope, having grown up in Germany and World War II, would be against war and against violence of any type,

And you can coast on that reputation for a long time but if you're going to hold that position, which I think would be the most profitable position, too, you have to earn it.

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.

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 I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

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.

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.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need. The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

I had a sacred trust there and I let it go. I thought there was no way they could phase me out, and I was wrong.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

Every day we are confronted with more news and information than we can handle, ... CNN Custom News will ensure that Internet users are not overwhelmed by this information.

There's an awful lot of superfluous news, the pervert of the day and someone that shot seven people at a fraternity party. Who needs it all

She's one of our core artists and when we got her new CD, deciding to play it was sort of a no-brainer. She's completely traditional and considering how long it's been since her last CD, the true country fans are going to flock to it.

I see what keeps people young: work!

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.