They weren’t drunk – they were just being loud. I was trying out for the football team and needed to get some sleep. One night I’d finally had enough and when Ted ran by my open window I reached out, grabbed him by the throat, and pulled him halfway into my room. I said, “Hey, what the hell’s the matter with you?

— Ted Turner

Ted Turner Quotes

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

— Ted Turner

Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

— Ted Turner

I was cable when cable wasn’t cool.

— Ted Turner

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

— Ted Turner

I’m just a socialist at heart.

— 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

I’d rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

— Ted Turner

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

— Ted Turner

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

— Ted Turner

I’ve always tried to do the smartest and best thing.

— Ted Turner

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

— Ted Turner

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

— Ted Turner

If you never quit, you’re never beaten.

— Ted Turner

If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn’t own anything. My wife’s a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven’t sold them.

— 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

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 was now the fall of 1956, and nine years after entering Georgia Military Academy as a scrawny “Yankee” from Ohio, I was now considered a “southerner,” enrolling at one of the North’s most elite institutions.

— Ted Turner

They weren’t drunk – they were just being loud. I was trying out for the football team and needed to get some sleep. One night I’d finally had enough and when Ted ran by my open window I reached out, grabbed him by the throat, and pulled him halfway into my room. I said, “Hey, what the hell’s the matter with you?

— Ted Turner

During my first several days there I really did feel like a fish out of water. After years of following a military dress code I wasn’t even sure what to wear. The one place I felt like I fit in was out on a boat and, fortunately, trials for the freshman sailing team began right away.

— Ted Turner
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