Quotes By Ted Turner

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.

The mind is just another muscle.

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

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.

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.

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

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.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

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.

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.