Ted Turner
Sports is like a war without the killing.Collection: War
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.Collection: Business
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Attitude
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.Collection: Sports
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Sad
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.Collection: Money
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.Collection: Environmental
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
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.
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.
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.
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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 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.
There's nothing wrong with being fired.
I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.
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.
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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.
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.
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.
The mind is just another muscle.
I see what keeps people young: work!
I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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.
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.
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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.
When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.