TED TURNER

I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

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.

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.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

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.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

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 believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

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.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

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.

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.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

I wanted to better inform the world.

If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

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.

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.