Ted Turner Quotes
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
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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.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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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.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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.
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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.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.
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When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
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If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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.
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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.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.