Ted Turner Quotes

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.

Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need, .. The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts.

I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.

Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.

I was cable when cable wasn't cool.

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

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

If you never quit, you're never beaten.

I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.

I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.

If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.

What the Bible says is really true-it's better to give than to receive.

Christians are losers.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

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

I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

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.

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.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.

Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.

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

A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

To succeed you have to be innovative.

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

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

When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

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.

We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.

Christianity is a religion for losers.

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

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.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.

Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.