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Ted Turner
American
Businessman
About the author
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.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Will
#Giants
#Media
#Rules
I see what keeps people young: work!
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#People
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,
American
Businessman
#Want
#War
#Money
#Blood
#Financial
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,
American
Businessman
#Right
#Today
#Attitude
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Humility
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Humility
Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Life
#Money
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,
American
Businessman
#Want
#Life
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Now
#Job
#Son
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#World
#Man
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
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,
American
Businessman
#World
#First
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Goals
I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Nothing
There's nothing wrong with being fired.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Nothing
#Being
#Wrong
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Want
#People
#World
#states
#United
The mind is just another muscle.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Mind
Sports is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#War
#Killing
#Sports
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.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#People
#Control
#Media
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,
American
Businessman
#World
#Man
#Race
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Life
#People
I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Acting
#Love
#Business
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
Ted Turner,
American
Businessman
#Father
#Environmental
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,
American
Businessman
#Gain
#Machine