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Ted Turner [1938-0] American

Rank: 101
Businessman, Media mogul

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Cable News Network, the first 24-hour cable news channel.

Business, Money, War, Attitude, Environmental, Future, Motivational, Sad, Travel, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.	Motivational	101
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.		102
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.		103
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.	Money	104
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.	Business	105
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.	Attitude	106
I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.		107
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.	Money, War	108
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.		109
I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.		110
The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.		111
The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.	Sad	112
I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.		113
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.		114
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.		115
The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.	War	116
I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.		117
Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.		118
I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.		119
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.	Future	120
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.		121
The mind is just another muscle.		122
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.	Environmental	123
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.		124
Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.		125
I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.		126
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.		201
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.		202
I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.		203
At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.		204
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.		205
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.		206
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.	Business	207
Sports is like a war without the killing.		208
I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.		209
There's nothing wrong with being fired.		210
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.		211
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.		212
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.		213
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.	Wisdom	214
If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.		215
The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.		216
I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.		217
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.		218
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.		219
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.		220
If I had any humility I would be perfect.		221
I see what keeps people young: work!		222
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.		223
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.		224
I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.		225
When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.		226
I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.		301
When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.		302
I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.		303
I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.		304
I wanted to better inform the world.		305
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.		306
The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!		307
I travel a lot. I'm on the move.	Travel	308
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.		309
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.		310
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.		311
I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.		312
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.		313
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.		314
I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.		315
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.		316
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.		317
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.		318

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