The Fascinating Life Of Media Giant Ted Turner

He’s Proud to Have Lived an Honorable Life

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Honor is a very important character trait for Ted. He told CNN in 2015: “There’s not one blemish on my honor in my entire 76-year career … I never paid anybody off … It’s very easy to slip into a lot of corruption. Very easy. But I resisted it all the way along.”

He then recited a passage from Shakespeare’s Richard II to make his point: “My honor is my life, we live in one. Take honor from me and my life is done. Then pray my liege, my honor let me try, for that I live, for that I die.”