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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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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
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Cincinnati
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Robert Edward Turner III
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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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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The mind is just another muscle.
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