Ted Turner Quotes

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Ted Turner

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 19, 1938

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

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

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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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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

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

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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

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

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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 lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

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If I had any humility I would be perfect.

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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.

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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 think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

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Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

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Sports is like a war without the killing.

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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

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

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

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