Ted Turner Quotes

"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."

"All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make 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 had any humility I would be perfect."

"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."

"You can never quit. Winner never quit, and quitters never win."

"I see what keeps people young: work!"

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

"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."

"If I only had a little humility I would be perfect"

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

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

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

"There's nothing wrong with being fired."

"If I had any humility I would be perfect"

"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."

"Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world."

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