Ted Turner
Ted Turner
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner IIIis an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Cable News Network, the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 November 1938
CityCincinnati, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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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'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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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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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.
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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.