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Ted Turner is an American media mogul and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder of CNN, the first 24-hour all-news network.
On November 19th in 1938, He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was a billboard advertising salesman, and his mother was a homemaker. Ted grew up to be a sports enthusiast, but he became more interested in broadcasting with his first job at the local CBS affiliate in Madison, Georgia.
After college, he tried to get into the advertising business. Still, he couldn’t find any positions that fit him well enough to start his own company called Turner Advertising Company with just 50000 dollars from his father’s life insurance policy. His company went on to grow from a small Atlanta-based outdoor advertising firm to an international media conglomerate.
He is a prominent figure in the media industry. He has been called the “father of cable TV” because he helped to legitimize the medium. Two Emmy Awards have recognized his contributions to journalism via CNN, a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, and a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.
45 Most Inspiring Ted Turner Quotes
“Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.” ― Ted Turner
“All my life people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.” ― Ted Turner
“When you lose small businesses, you lose big ideas. People who own their own businesses are their own bosses. They are independent thinkers. They know they can’t compete by imitating the big guys; they have to innovate. So they are less obsessed with earnings than they are with ideas.” ― Ted Turner
“It’s going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.” ― Ted Turner
“I’m no genius. I’m not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.” ― Ted Turner
“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.” ― Ted Turner
“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” ― Ted Turner
“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.” ― Ted Turner
“You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.” ― Ted Turner
“When our time’s up, it’s up. All the money in the world won’t buy you one more day.” ― Ted Turner
“To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you’re truly wireless.” ― Ted Turner
“I regret that I wasn’t more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.” ― Ted Turner
“If I had to predict, the way things are going, I’d say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.” ― Ted Turner
“Just because your ratings are bigger doesn’t mean you are better.” ― Ted Turner
“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.” ― Ted Turner
“It’s going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. We’re going to have to move away from fossil fuels.” ― Ted Turner
“Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.” ― Ted Turner
“There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.” ― Ted Turner
“If you can get yourself where you’re not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.” ― Ted Turner
“There is nothing wrong with being fired.” ― Ted Turner
“The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.” ― Ted Turner
“If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that was the most important position, in the news business to hold.” ― Ted Turner
“All my life people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.” ― Ted Turner
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.”Ted Turner
“The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.” ― Ted Turner
“The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning’s better.” ― Ted Turner
“I just love it when people say I can’t do something. There’s nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn’t going to make it.” ― Ted Turner
“I didn’t care what or how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.” ― Ted Turner
“There’s nothing wrong with being fired.” ― Ted Turner
“To succeed you have to be innovative.” ― Ted Turner
“Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn’t look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.” ― Ted Turner
“The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give.” ― Ted Turner
“If you can get yourself where you’re not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.” ― Ted Turner
“The mind is just another muscle.” ― Ted Turner
“There’s nothing wrong with being fired.” ― Ted Turner
“Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.” ― Ted Turner
“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
“If you panic that’s a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.” ― Ted Turner
“Life is like a B-movie. You don’t want to leave in the middle of it, but you don’t want to see it again.” ― Ted Turner
“Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.” ― Ted Turner
“I didn’t care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.” ― Ted Turner
“The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.” ― Ted Turner
“I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.” ― Ted Turner
“We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they are already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these companies to pieces.” ― Ted Turner
“I see what keeps people young: work!” – Ted Turner
“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” ― Ted Turner
“If you can get yourself where you’re not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.” ― Ted Turner