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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
Robert Turner
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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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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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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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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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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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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
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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.
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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.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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