Ted Turner
Businessman
1938-11-19
Quotes by Ted Turner
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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.
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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.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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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.
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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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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.
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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!
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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.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
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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.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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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.
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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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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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Life is like a B-grade 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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Either lead, follow, or get out of the way.
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Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.
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I was cable when cable wasn't cool.
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