Quotes by Ted Turner

• 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.
• I see what keeps people young: work!
• 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'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.
• If I had any humility I would be perfect.
• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
• Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
• Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
• 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.
• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
• Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
• You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
• To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
• You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
• I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
• There's nothing wrong with being fired.
• The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
• The mind is just another muscle.
• Sports is like a war without the killing.
• 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.
• 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.
• All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
• I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
• I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
• 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.
• Remember, the greatest wealth is health.