Ted Turner Quotes


Ted Turner

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They`re better than us.

If I only had a little humility I would be perfect.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

(When asked what his personal motto was): "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!"

One summer I made $50 a week, and my father charged me $25 a week rent. I asked him if that wasn`t a little high. He said that if I could do better than that for food and lodging seven days a week I could move out.

On the 2008 government bailout saving car companies instead of the restaurant business: People would rather eat than drive cars!

The best day of my life was my wedding night. The first one. The others weren`t so bad either!

The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning`s better.

If I only had a little humility, I`d be perfect.

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That`s what you`re called when you don`t have a job.

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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