Ted Turner Quotes

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

Ted Turner

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• I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Technology

• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Up
  • Job
  • Writer

• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Business
  • Together

• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Art
  • Business
  • Parents

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Difficult
  • Year

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Done
  • Job
  • Beauty

• Business is tough; you need tough guys.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Business
  • You
  • Tough

• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Born

• The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Focus
  • Doing

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Job

• The object of all true Philosophy is to frame a system which shall comprehend human life under every aspect, social as well as individual. It embraces, therefore, the three kinds of phenomena of which our life consists, Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • Life
  • True
  • Thoughts

• I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do... it's weird, non?

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

  

  John White Geary
  • Daily

• I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Trying
  • Missing

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

  

  Ted Turner
  • Business
  • Job
  • Son