The mind is just another muscle.
— 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.
We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
There's nothing wrong with being fired.
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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.
Sports is like a war without the killing.
I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
