Ted Turner Quotes
18 quotes from Ted Turner — Media mogul who founded CNN (the first 24-hour news network) and Turner Broadcasting..
“Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.”
“You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”
“Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.”
“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
“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.”
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.”
“It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.”
“The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.”
“People would rather eat than drive cars!”
“I am appalled, even horrified, that you have adopted Classics as a Major. As a matter of fact, I almost puked on the way home today. ... I think you are rapidly becoming a jackass, and the sooner you get out of that filthy atmosphere, the better it will suit me.”
“He was much more than a cheerleader. He was the kind of guy you'd want to run through a wall for.”
“If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.”
“I don't have any idea what I'm going to say. I say what comes to my mind.”
“For some reason, he has a guilty conscience. He went much further than his father thought he would. So what's left? To be a good guy. He knows he will go down in history. He won't go down as a greedy corporate mogul. Although he claims to be an atheist, at the end of every speech he says, 'God bless you.' He wants to get into Heaven.”
“How are you feeling about life at 75? It's better than being dead.”
“He's the last of the revolutionary and creative minds in our business. The idea of twenty-four-hour news and global news is his creation. That's changed the world. It's changed people's relations with their governments. It's meant that governments can no longer crack down with impunity on protests. And Ted's business also had a human face and a moral face and a social face. It wasn't just about making money and building an empire.”
“You need to control everything. You want to have a hospital and a funeral home, so when the people die in the hospital you move them right over to the funeral home next door. When they're born, you got 'em. When they're sick, you got 'em. When they die, you got 'em. The game's over when they break you up. But in the meantime you play to win.”
