12 Quotes By 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 on attitude

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

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 on business

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

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
Ted Turner on money

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner on motivational

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.
Ted Turner on movies

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.
Ted Turner on politics

Sports is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner on sports

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.
Ted Turner on sports

Sports is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner on war

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 on war