Ted Turner Quotes

"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."

"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."

"There's nothing wrong with being fired."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"The mind is just another muscle."

"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."

"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."