Ted Turner Quotes
130 Ted Turner Quotes
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Why do you think my own racing yacht is name Tenacious…? Because I never quit. I’ve got a bunch of flags on my boat, but there ain’t no white flags. I don’t surrender. That’s the story of my life.
Ted Turner
A few years ago, people were asking me how it felt to lose 100 games in a season. Now ask me how it feels to be a champion. It feels great. It’s wonderful.
Ted Turner
There are very few 22 year old players that call the owner a jerk after he just gave them a million dollar contract.
Ted Turner
Nobody in the history of the world has lost as much money in sports as I have. It’s reached the point where I judge my success by how big a loss I can absorb.
Ted Turner
Modern chicken farmers, they grind up the feet to make fertilizer, they grind up the intestines to make dog food. The feathers go into pillows. Even the chicken manure they make into fertilizer. They use every bit of the chicken. Well, that’s what we try to do over here with the television products, is use everything to its fullest extent.
Ted Turner
We can best achieve peace by letting the peoples of the world get to know each other better.
Ted Turner
We’re trying to keep up with the Joneses – and the Murdochs and the Redstones and the Buffetts.
Ted Turner
I want to be able to stand at the first-class table, I don’t want people pushing me around anymore.
Ted Turner
The game I’m in is building assets.
Ted Turner
Goddam it! I’ve never done anything like this before. It’s like sailboat racing in a hurricane. It’s like being in an airplane in a storm. You buckle your seat belt.
Ted Turner
You have to be willing to accept risks in business.
Ted Turner
When you’re got partners, you have to spend some time listening. You can’t be talking all the time.
Ted Turner
I may make a mistake someday, but buying MGM wasn’t one of them.
Ted Turner
I showed everyone it made a lot of sense to buy MGM, I showed ‘em.
Ted Turner
You don’t look back, you gotta look ahead.
Ted Turner
Nuclear war would really set back cable TV.
Ted Turner
[The founder of CNN recalling his latrine and menial duties during a brief stint in the US Coast Guard] I, who would one day affect the destiny of the nation, was cleaning crap.
Ted Turner
A full moon blanks out all the stars around it.
Ted Turner
My life is a war between the forces of good and evil.
Ted Turner
Just as the AM radio stations were first, that doesn’t guarantee you in today’s world. You constantly have to stay ahead.
Ted Turner
I’ve got the ability to inspire people.
Ted Turner
I can make 11 guys work harder and longer than anybody else. And baseball players are the same way. They just want someone who really cares.
Ted Turner
I went into debating in my sophomore year in high school and ended up winning the state championship my senior year. I’ve got a virtually limitless supply of bullsht.
Ted Turner
I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
Ted Turner
What is trouble? Trouble is what makes life interesting…
Ted Turner
We tried to build values and build real values rather than make it look like you’re making a lot of money by paying taxes.
Ted Turner
One of the human traits is to make too much of it when someone is doing a good job and make too much of it when people are having a bad streak of luck.
Ted Turner
My father always said to never set goals you can reach in your lifetime. After you accomplish them, there’s nothing left.
Ted Turner
Physical pain, I can stand.
Ted Turner
How much you give is how you keep score.
Ted Turner
If the men want to take off their jackets, feel free to. And, if the girls want to take off their blouses, it’s all right with me.
Ted Turner
If only I had a little humility, I’d be perfect.
Ted Turner
[In 1997] Time. I need more of it. Actually, I am the biggest shareholder of Time. I own Time. And now I’m running out of it.
Ted Turner
What you’ve got to have in baseball is pitching, speed and money.
Ted Turner
[On Baseball Agents] When they smile, blood drips off their teeth.
Ted Turner
[On negotiations with free agent Andy Messersmith] I offered him a no-cut contract, except in case of death.
Ted Turner
[On the price of food at Fulton Country Stadium] Outrageous, really outrageous. I’m not sure I won’t eat before I come to the game.
Ted Turner
[On what he insists that he wants written on his tombstone] You can’t interview me here.
Ted Turner
I’m not interested in selling the Braves… but I don’t know why.
Ted Turner
I bought the Braves for two reasons – to get an autographed baseball without pleading for it and to get good seats.
Ted Turner
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