Quotes By Ted Turner

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

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.

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

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

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.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

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

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

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

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.

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.

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

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

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 see what keeps people young: work!

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

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

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

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

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

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.

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

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

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.