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
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
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
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. - Ted Turner
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that. - 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
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again. - 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
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. - Ted Turner