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If you never quit, you're never beaten.

Ted Turner

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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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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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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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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I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.
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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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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.
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Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.
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