Ted Turner Quotes - Page 2

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

The mind is just another muscle.

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.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

I'm just a socialist at heart.

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

Christianity is a religion for losers.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

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

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 know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

I'm a human being, just like everybody else. I'm up some days and down others. Some days, I just refuse comment. If I'm feeling a little down, I won't say anything. But if I'm really up, I'll let it all hang out. I do have a slight propensity to put my foot in my mouth.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.

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.

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

If you never quit, you're never beaten.