Ted Turner Quotes
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I was cable when cable wasn't cool.
— 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
It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.
— Ted Turner
Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.
— Ted Turner
Sports is like a war without the killing.
— 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
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
— Christiane Amanpour
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
— Ted Turner
Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.
— Ted Turner
I see what keeps people young: work!
— Ted Turner
Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.
— Ted Turner
I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.
— Ted Turner
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.
— 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
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
— Ted Turner
I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
— Ted Turner
I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
— Ted Turner
CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.
— Ted Turner
I'm sure God, wherever he is, wants to see us get along with one another and love one another.
— Ted Turner
There's nothing wrong with being fired.
— Ted Turner
I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
— Ted Turner
Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
— Ted Turner
If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
— Ted Turner
There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.
— Ted Turner
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.
— Ted Turner
Where's the upside in opening your mouth?
— 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'm just a socialist at heart.
— Ted Turner
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.
— Ted Turner
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
— Ted Turner
There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.
— Ted Turner
If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.
— Ted Turner
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
— Ted Turner
I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
— Ted Turner
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.
— Ted Turner
Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.
— Jane Fonda
Christianity is a religion for losers.
— Ted Turner
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.
— Ted Turner
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.
— Ted Turner
If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.
— Ted Turner
To succeed you have to be innovative.
— Ted Turner
The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.
— 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
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
— Ted Turner
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
— Ted Turner
I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.
— Ted Turner
If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
— Ted Turner
Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
— Joseph Barbera
Christians are losers.
— Ted Turner
I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.
— Ted Turner
I like something with 'vice' in it.
— Ted Turner
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
— Ted Turner
Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.
— Ted Turner
There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.
— Ted Turner
I wanted to better inform the world.
— Ted Turner
Nuclear war would really set back cable.
— Ted Turner
I'm not Bill Gates. And I'm not Ted Turner.
— James Jannard
I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
— Ted Turner
The mind is just another muscle.
— Ted Turner
The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
— Ted Turner
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
— Ted Turner
I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through ...
— Ted Turner
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
— Ted Turner
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
— Ted Turner