Famous Ted Turner Quotations

"CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

by Arthur C. Clarke

"Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!"

by Ted Turner

"If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect."

by Ted Turner

"If I had any humility I would be perfect"

by Ted Turner

"Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world."

by Ted Turner

"We are unaware of any fraudulent use of Ted Turner's credit cards or bank statements."

by Ted Turner

"When you lose small businesses, you lose big ideas. People who own their own businesses are their own bosses. They are independent thinkers. They know they can't compete by imitating the big guys; they have to innovate. So they are less obsessed with earnings than they are with ideas."

by Ted Turner

"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."

by Ted Turner

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

by Ted Turner