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40 Ted Turner Quotes & Sayings
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40 Ted Turner Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 19 November 1938 |
Businessman
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Media proprietor
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Producer
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Philanthropist
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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.
Ted Turner
Adequately
Good
Grab
Know
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner
Entrepreneur
Job
Now
Son
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner
Like
Sports
War
Without
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Ted Turner
Never
Never Quit
Quit
Quitter
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Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
Ted Turner
Because
Better
Bigger
Just
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Ted Turner
All My Life
Going
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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.
Ted Turner
Anything
Attitude
Could
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner
Had
Humility
Little
Only
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
Ted Turner
Acting
Business
Get
Here
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Ted Turner
Being
Fired
Nothing
Wrong
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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.
Ted Turner
Away
Gave
Had
Half
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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.
Ted Turner
Airplane
Be Happy
Cell
Cell Phone
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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.
Ted Turner
Been
Blood
Financial
Good
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
Ted Turner
Game
How
Keep
Life
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Ted Turner
Another
Just
Mind
Muscle
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Ted Turner
I See
Keeps
People
See
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You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
Ted Turner
Always
Beyond
Goals
Live
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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.
Ted Turner
Again
Leave
Life
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
Ted Turner
Entertainment
News
See
Serious
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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.
Ted Turner
Better
Better Job
Could
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
Ted Turner
It Is What It Is
Marriages
More
Regret
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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
Diverse
Fortune
Good
Good Fortune
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
Ted Turner
Around
Broke
Fast
Get
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Ted Turner
Adversity
Care
Get
How
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
Ted Turner
About
Around
Gotta
Mean
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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
About
Candidates
CNN
Come
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
Ted Turner
Better
Men
Office
Planet
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Ted Turner
Better
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Learned
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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
Could
Country
Cure
Diseases
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Ted Turner
Afraid
Dying
Faster
Forward
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
Ted Turner
Because
Changed
Driven
Energy
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Ted Turner
Derogatory
Fight
Start
Thing
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
Ted Turner
Back
Best
Buying
Cable
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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.
Ted Turner
Environment
Equitable
Everybody
Generous
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
Ted Turner
Business
Crisis
Everybody
Had
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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.
Ted Turner
Apart
Believe
Better
Country
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Ted Turner
Better
Inform
Wanted
World
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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
Business
CNN
Grew
Half
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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.
Ted Turner
About
Destroying
Elephants
Environment
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Ted Turner
Earth
Frogs
Giraffes
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