Ted's head space

where the bison play

"Ever since I was a little boy, I've been in "survival mode."
- Ted Turner

environmentalism

"Even if we knew for sure that we were going to fail (which we don't), what could men of good conscience do but fight until the very end?"
- Jacques Cousteau

the man who drove him the hardest

"Set your goals so high that you can't achieve them in your lifetime."
- Ted Turner's father

axiom

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."
- Ted Turner who lost $10 million per day over three years, but who now owns about two million acres of land, which is greater than the land areas of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Turner's land has a higher GDP than Belize.  

non-proliferator

"The United States and Russia have 90% of the world's nuclear weapons, which are capable of wiping-out the earth multiple times."

- Ted Turner, who is America's single biggest individual landowner.

old salt

"Sailing is like standing in a cold shower tearing up $100 bills."

- Commodore of a Michigan yacht club

Image source here.

success secrets

One of Turner's 45,000 bison. Image source here.

"[In addition to having high energy], I also keep my sights set on the future and don't spend much time dwelling on the past. I've had some tough experiences as a child and have had my share of business and personal setbacks, but sitting around thinking about them isn't going to change anything. Someone once said that I was a good winner but a better loser. When I have a set back, I put it behind me as fast as I can and keep moving. I don't play golf but I compare the way I respond to disappointments to the way a golfer does after he hits a drive into the water. He doesn't walk down to the pond, dive in, dig out his ball, examine the ball, and ponder what happened. Instead, he takes another ball out of his bag, tees it up, and keeps on playing. After a disappointment I always try to bounce back and I've no doubt that this helped me tremendously. I also have a strong work ethic. From my earliest days pulling weeds in the yard to working for my dad out at the billboard company, nothing was handed to me."

- Ted Turner [born 1938], Call Me Ted, pp. 259-260

An earlier reference to Turner here.

Call Him Ted

"When I suffer a setback, I don't think of myself as losing, I'm simply learning how to win." [Call Me Ted, p. 149]

- Ted Turner [born 1938] whose accomplishments include winning the America's Cup when he was thirty-nine, donating $1 billion to the U.N., owning the most land of any private citizen in the United States.