Quote

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

Ted Turner

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
Robert Turner
Life
Threw
Intended
Adversity
Didn
Care
Much

More quotes by Ted Turner

Image
Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.
Ted Turner
Image
The mind is just another muscle.
Ted Turner
Image
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?
Ted Turner
Image
There's nothing wrong with being fired.
Ted Turner
Image
If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.
Ted Turner
Image
I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
Ted Turner
Image
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
Ted Turner
Image
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.
Ted Turner
Image
John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
Ted Turner
Image
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.
Ted Turner
Image
I'm 68 and a half years old I grew up with newspapers I love newspapers I love the news business. I started CNN I'm a journalist and proud of it.
Ted Turner
Image
Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
Ted Turner
Image
I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
Ted Turner
Image
If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
Ted Turner
Image
Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
Ted Turner
Image
The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
Ted Turner
Image
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.
Ted Turner
Image
I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
Ted Turner
Image
If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
Ted Turner
Image
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.
Ted Turner