Quotes by Ted Turner

About Ted Turner:

Robert Edward is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Cable News Network more popularly known as CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television.
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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.

Ted Turner

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 wor...

Ted Turner

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

Ted Turner

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

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

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

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

Ted Turner

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

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Ted Turner

I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

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

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

Ted Turner

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

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

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.

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

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

Ted Turner

Author Bio

  • NameTed Turner
  • DescriptionAmerican media mogul, philanthropist, founder of TBS and CNN
  • BornNovember 19, 1938
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur
  • AwardsPeabody Award; Humanist Of The Year; International Emmy Directorate Award; Delta Prize For Global Understanding