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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
Ted Turner
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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
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Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
Robert Turner
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I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.
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If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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?
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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.
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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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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.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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.
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I'm no genius. I'm not at all I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
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I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.
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I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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