Ted Turner Quotes

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

I believe in a reasonable amount of "right to bear arms". But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to own nuclear weapons. I always wanted a nuclear weapon, if I could have gotten one. I'm every other kind of power, but I'm not a nuclear power.

We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.

If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.

If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.

Jesus Christ would have been considered just another long-haired hippie freak if he hadn't been crucified. The folks weren't impressed with healing the sick, feeding the multitudes bread and fish or anything else, except maybe the walking on water. But when he got crucified, that gave him his big start.

I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

When I started CNN, I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

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

I'm sure God, wherever he is, wants to see us get along with one another and love one another.

Where's the upside in opening your mouth?

Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

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

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

I wanted to better inform the world.

The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

I see what keeps people young: work!

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.

I like something with 'vice' in it.

The mind is just another muscle.

The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.

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

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.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.

Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.

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

I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.

Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

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

We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.

Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.