All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
– Ted Turner
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.
– Ted Turner
I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
– Ted Turner
I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
– Ted Turner
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.
– Ted Turner
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.
– Ted Turner
Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
– Ted Turner
My son is now an entrepreneur. That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
– Ted Turner
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.
– Ted Turner
Sports is like a war without the killing.
– Ted Turner
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.
– Ted Turner
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
– Ted Turner
The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
– Ted Turner
There's nothing wrong with being fired.
– Ted Turner
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
– Ted Turner
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.
– Ted Turner
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.
– Ted Turner
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
– Ted Turner
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.
– Ted Turner
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
– Ted Turner
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.
– Ted Turner
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.