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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
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Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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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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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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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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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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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 didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.
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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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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 world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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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 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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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.
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