A biography for Ted Turnerhasn’t been written yet.
“The mind is just another muscle.”
“I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.”
“I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.”
“Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.”
“The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.”
“I see what keeps people young: work!”
“At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.”
“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
“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.”
“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.”