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

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.
Ted Turner

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

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

I see what keeps people young: work!
Ted Turner

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

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.
Ted Turner

If I had any humility I would be perfect.
Ted Turner

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

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

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

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.
Ted Turner

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

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.
Ted Turner

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner

Sports is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner

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.
Ted Turner

The mind is just another muscle.
Ted Turner

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

There's nothing wrong with being fired.
Ted Turner