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" 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. "

Ted Turner

Man

Wealth

Lost

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" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "

" It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. "

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" I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world. "

" To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. "

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

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" If I had any humility I would be perfect. "

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

" I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out. "

" If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth. "

" The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do. "

" When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. "

" I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. "

" 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. "

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" I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it. "

" 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. "