Ted Turner Quotes

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Ted Turner

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 19, 1938

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.

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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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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

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I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

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

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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.

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

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There's nothing wrong with being fired.

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We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

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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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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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The mind is just another muscle.

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I see what keeps people young: work!

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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

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