American - Businessman | November 19, 1938 -
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.
Ted Turner
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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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.
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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.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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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.
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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 didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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