“If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.”
Ted (Robert Edward) Turner (1938- )
Media mogul, billionaire, philanthropist and sailor, Ted Turner was born in Ohio, but his family moved to Atlanta when he was nine. Educated at The McCallie School and Brown University, from which he was expelled for having a woman in his room, Turner took over a successful billboard business at 24 when his father took his own life. Over the next two decades he parleyed that business into an empire by shrewdly expanding a local television station into the giant TBS cable network, while establishing CNN, the Cartoon Network, TNT, TCM and others. As captain and owner of the sloop Courageous he successfully defended America’s Cup in 1977, beating Australia 4-0. He owns the Atlanta Braves and the Hawks, more land than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, and a herd of 50,000 bison. Famously outspoken, “The Mouth of the South” has pledged a billion dollars to the United Nations Foundation and supports anti-war and environmental causes. Married three times, most recently to Jane Fonda, he now says he has four girlfriends, a situation he describes as “complicated.”
Good Morning Gloucester 
One of the greatest sailors ever, Ted also had a saying on his desk- Lead, Follow or Get out of the Way. And is one of the most memorable people I have met.
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Ted is something else and while I don’t always agree with him I admire him. I was in college in ATL back when TBS was a low budget UHF station ( Channel 17 ). He no longer owns the Braves. Don’t think he owns the Hawks anymore either.
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