Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.
– Ted Turner
I see what keeps people young: work.
– Ted Turner
The mind is just another muscle.
– Ted Turner
My son is now an “entrepreneur.” That’s what you are called when you don’t have a job.
– Ted Turner
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.
– Ted Turner
I don’t want my tombstone to read
“I never owned a network.”
– Ted Turner
As I started getting rich, I started thinking, “What the hell am I going to do with all this money?” You have to learn to give.
– Ted Turner
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
– Ted Turner
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
– Ted Turner
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There are really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It’s not healthy.
– Ted Turner
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
– Ted Turner
All my life people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.
– 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
The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
– 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
I’d rather go to hell. Heaven has got to be boring.
– Ted Turner
We are going to survive together, or we are going to perish together.
– Ted Turner
The best day of my life was my wedding night. The first one. The others weren’t so bad either!
– Ted Turner
I have 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
Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.
– Ted Turner
Having great wealth is one of the most disappointing things. It’s overrated, I can tell you that. It’s not as good as average sex.
– Ted Turner
Sports is like a war without the killing.
– Ted Turner
We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they are already too big. We need new set of rules that will break these companies to pieces.
– 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
There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.
– Ted Turner
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They’re better than us.
– Ted Turner
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you’re truly wireless.
– Ted Turner
I’d like to see a world without land mines, with kids out playing. I’d like to see us act like highly educated, civilized human beings.
– Ted Turner