You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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.
Sports is like a war without the killing.
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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.
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.
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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.
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 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.
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.
I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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.
I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
I wanted to better inform the world.
I see what keeps people young: work!
The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
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.
I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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.
I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
The mind is just another muscle.
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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!
I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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.
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.
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.
