Quote

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.

Ted Turner

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Living
Hearted
Human
Thoughtful
Humans
Generous
Kind
Planet
Love
Planets
Like
Environment
Decently
World
Everybody
Equitable
Race
Preserved

More quotes by Ted Turner

Image
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Ted Turner
Image
I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
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
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.
Ted Turner
Image
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.
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 chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
Ted Turner
Image
I'm no genius. I'm not at all I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
Ted Turner
Image
I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
Ted Turner
Image
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.
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
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
Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
Ted Turner
Image
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
Ted Turner
Image
I'm just a socialist at heart.
Ted Turner
Image
I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
Ted Turner
Image
We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.
Ted Turner
Image
I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
Ted Turner
Image
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.
Ted Turner
Image
The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
Ted Turner