Ted Turner Quotes

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I try to lead. I do not follow.

I didn't want to be a man of words but of action.

Taking a backseat role is not in my nature.

Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

Any action is better than no action at all.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Passivity is fatal to us.

I am no advocate of passivity.

Change is realized by men who take the next step; not those who theorize about the 20th step.

The world is divided into three types of people in business: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Let me be the one To do what is done.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.

You can't lay back and wait for somebody else to do it. And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem.