Ted Turner Quotes

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

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.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

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.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.

The mind is just another muscle.

Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.

Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.

Christians are losers.

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.

A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.

We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

Christianity is a religion for losers.

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

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.

I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said 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.

I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

To succeed you have to be innovative.

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

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.

We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

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.

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.

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.

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.

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

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.

The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.

Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.