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. – Ted Turner
I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. – Ted Turner
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. – Ted Turner
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They’re better than us. – Ted Turner
If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth. – Ted Turner
I like Obama. I don’t know who could do a better job. He’s got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I’d like to see him rally support a little better. – Ted Turner
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don’t want to make money that way. I don’t want blood money. – Ted Turner
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. – Ted Turner
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. – Ted Turner
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There’s really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It’s not healthy. – Ted Turner
The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. – Ted Turner
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. – Ted Turner
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. – Ted Turner
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
If you can get yourself where you’re not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. – Ted Turner
