Best 126 quotes of Ted Turner on MyQuotes

There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

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

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

The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

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

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

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

To succeed you have to be innovative.

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.

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

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.

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.

What the Bible says is really true-it's better to give than to receive.

When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?

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.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

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.

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

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.