Quotes from 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.

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

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.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

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

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

It was now the fall of 1956, and nine years after entering Georgia Military Academy as a scrawny "Yankee" from Ohio, I was now considered a "southerner," enrolling at one of the North's most elite institutions.

They weren't drunk—they were just being loud. I was trying out for the football team and needed to get some sleep. One night I'd finally had enough and when Ted ran by my open window I reached out, grabbed him by the throat, and pulled him halfway into my room. I said, "Hey, what the hell's the matter with you?

During my first several days there I really did feel like a fish out of water. After years of following a military dress code I wasn't even sure what to wear. The one place I felt like I fit in was out on a boat and, fortunately, trials for the freshman sailing team began right away.

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

Whether you're talking about a person or a country, it's okay to be rich and it's okay to be powerful, just as long as you're humble and cooperative. But if you combine being rich and powerful with being arrogant and uncooperative, people won't cut you much slack,

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

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

The mind is just another muscle.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

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

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.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

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

I see what keeps people young: work!

I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.

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.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise