Ted Turner Men Quotations

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.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

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

I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

It is after much deliberation that I have decided not to stand for re-election at the annual meeting. I have enjoyed working with (TW chairman and CEO) Dick Parsons, as well as the other board members and the management team. I wish Dick and the company every success.

Mr. Parsons, AOLTW CEO, views Ted as a key member of the management team.

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.

I consider this movement part of the human rights movement, ... Everybody is entitled to an equal chance in life. ... I'm going to keep pressing so everyone has an equal chance in the world. There's still a lot of work to do, and we'll keep doing it.