Ted Turner- "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise."
I decided I wanted to be a success.
Ted Turner
My son is now an “entrepreneur.” That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.
Ted Turner
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
Ted Turner
When you lose small businesses, you lose big ideas. People who own their own businesses are their own bosses. They are independent thinkers. They know they can’t compete by imitating the big guys; they have to innovate. So they are less obsessed with earnings than they are with ideas.
Ted Turner
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
I see what keeps people young: work!
Ted Turner
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner
All my life people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.
Ted Turner
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
Ted Turner
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.
Ted Turner
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
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
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
All the money is in the hands of these few rich people and none of them give any money away. It’s dangerous for them and the country. We may have another French Revolution and there’ll be another madame Defarge knitting and watching them come in little oxcarts down to the town square and BOOM! Off with their heads!”
Ted Turner
When ABC’s John Stossell suggested to Turner that he should stick to being an entrepreneur and that his donations probably wouldn’t go very far, Turner looked at Stossel like he was crazy. Turner, himself, said that his father would help “less affluent students, he would pay their way to college. They wouldn’t even know he did it. He did it quiet.
Ted Turner
I want to be Jiminy Cricket for America.
Ted Turner
I’ve gone from a man of war to a man of peace.
Ted Turner
I don’t have any idea what I’m going to say. I say what comes to my mind.
Ted Turner
I lose my self-restraint and… just get up and dance sometimes.
Ted Turner
My business side is coming to a close. It’s time for me to move on, anyway.
Ted Turner
I’m very busy. Over the last three to four years, I’ve created another life for myself, and even if they had offered me the chairmanship of the company I probably wouldn’t have taken it. It would require all my time, and I’d have to move to New York and I don’t want that. I’ve got this other stuff that I think is in many ways more important.
Ted Turner
The mind is just another muscle.
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
I pledged to the U.N. that I’m going to try and raise additional funds from other sources as well, to get other wealthy individuals to contribute, because there’s no reason why we can’t raise lots of money… The world is just awash in money right because of the markets.
Ted Turner
I would say that anything that is indecent and violent in TV is a crime against humanity and they should shoot the head man responsible.
Ted Turner
Well, you can’t make people give – that’s not giving. They gotta want to give. It’s very complicated, but the best way is to lead by example.
Ted Turner
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They’re better than us.
Ted Turner
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
Ted Turner
There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.
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
The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
Ted Turner
Just because your ratings are bigger doesn’t mean you’re better.
Ted Turner
I had a sacred trust there and I let it go. I thought there was no way they could phase me out, and I was wrong.
Ted Turner
I know what I’m having ‘em put on my tombstone: ‘I have nothing more to say’.
Ted Turner
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
I consider this movement part of the human rights movement, … Everybody is entitled to an equal chance in life. … I’m going to keep pressing so everyone has an equal chance in the world. There’s still a lot of work to do, and we’ll keep doing it.
Ted Turner
Having great wealth is one of the most disappointing things. It’s overrated, I can tell you that. It’s not as good as average sex.
Ted Turner
In 20 short years, by all the surveys, we became the world’s most respected news source. The New York Times had been there for 100 years. We did it in 20.And you can coast on that reputation for a long time but if you’re going to hold that position, which I think would be the most profitable position, too, you have to earn it.
Ted Turner
I’d rather go to hell. Heaven has got to be boring.
Ted Turner
Managing isn’t that difficult, you just have to score more runs than the other guy.
Ted Turner
Up-to-the minute news relevant to their interests in a concise format
Ted Turner
We are going to survive together, or we are going to perish together.
Ted Turner
As I started getting rich, I started thinking, “what the hell am I going to do with all this money?”… You have to learn to give.
Ted Turner
I’d like to see a world without land mines, with kids out playing. I’d like to see us act like highly educated, civilized human beings.
Ted Turner
Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.
Ted Turner
If you’ve got an innovative idea, and the majority does not poohpooh it, then the odds are you must not have a very good idea. When people thought I was loony, it did not bother me at all. In fact, I considered that I must really be onto something.
Ted Turner
I am very serious about running for president, but Jane doesn’t want me to do it.
Ted Turner