Ted Turner

I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

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

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

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

The mind is just another muscle.

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

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

I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

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 only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.

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

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

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

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.

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.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

My son is now an entrepreneur. Thats what youre called when you dont have a job.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

To succeed you have to be innovative.

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

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

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.

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.

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.

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 didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

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.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

I see what keeps people young: work!

If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

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.

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 I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.