Ted Turner Quotes

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• Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.

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  Business, Way, School Principal

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

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  Nwo, Eugenics, People

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• You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

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  Motivational, Inspiration, Hard Work

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• When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

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  World, One More Day, Our Time

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• Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.

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  Christian, Religious, Sea

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

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  Winning, Losing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

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  People, Enemy, Dignity

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• If people get all the sex they can handle, they're so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you've gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that's a solution to the world's problems.

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  Sex, Mean, People

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• Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.

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  Fun, Struggle, Achieve

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Goal

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• Jesus Christ would have been considered just another long-haired hippie freak if he hadn't been crucified. The folks weren't impressed with healing the sick, feeding the multitudes bread and fish or anything else, except maybe the walking on water. But when he got crucified, that gave him his big start.

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  Jesus, Hippie, Healing

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• The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.

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  Success, Fighting, White

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• To succeed you have to be innovative.

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  Succeed, Innovative

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

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  Thinking, Years, Looks

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• Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.

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  Beats, You Re Pretty, Ifs

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• The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

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  Work, People, United States

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• Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

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  Grandchildren, Impact, Today

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• Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.

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  Success, Mistake, Hard Times

  Todd Wilkinson, Ted Turner (2013). “Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet”, p.72, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Christians are losers.

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  Christian, Atheism, Loser

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• Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.

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  Lynching, Choices, Way

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• There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.

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  Conspiracy, Company, Five

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• There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.

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  Lines, Fine, Stills

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.

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  Bullshit, Limitless

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• Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

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  Life, Games, Inspire

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• I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.

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  Children, Years, Ideas

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