Ted Turner Quotes

Ted Turner Biography
Type: Businessman
Nationality: American
Born: November 19, 1938

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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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.
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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I see what keeps people young: work!
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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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.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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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.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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