Success can be thought of in many ways, some people think success having money and some people think success is completing a challenge or goal that they had for their self. It could mean reaching a big or small goal whether it would be achieving to run a mile or you having a job and getting a raise because of your work ethic.Ted Turners thoughts of success was “ To be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime.” And the outcome of Ted’s success was when he successfully created CNN and is still lucky to have it still existing today. Although Ted had his challenges in creating CNN he never gave up because he wanted to reach the goal in having CNN keeping it's business. Ted says “Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime.” …show more content…
He graduated from “The McCallie School” and eventually went to Brown University until he got kicked out in 1959. Around four years later Teds’ father dies and that is when he begins getting into the television industry, taking over his father’s business. After owning “Turner Advertising” Ted decided he wanted to create a network of his own and in 1980 he decides to create CNN. It was the first ever 24-hours cable network.
When he first started his company he really didn't make much of a profit because he wasn't earning more money than he was spending. Within three years of creating CNN Ted wasn't so sure if the company would survive because he was in a battle with SNC, causing him major debt. But after battling for two years CNN won, having a great outcome of finally paying off debts and being able to make a profit for their television. As of today CNN has been around for 36 years and continues to thrive, having its worth be around $10 billion
In 1976 Turner bought the baseball team the Atlanta Braves and then the next year he bought the Atlanta Hawks. In 1980 Turner invented Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24 hour news station. In 1988 he launched Turner Network Television (TNT). Then in 1991 Turner married the actress Jane Fonda. Turner, now at the age of 63, still owns all his companies.
Ed Turner was the owner of Turner Advertising, a very lucrative business. By 1950 Ted was attending McCallie an elite boarding school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a curriculum including military training, which was one of his favorite subjects. 1956 saw young Ted Turner enrolled at Brown University, after insistence from his father to ditch his dreams of the U.S. Naval Academy, Ted Turner, did not receive his degree. By 1960 Ted Turner was made manager of Turner Advertising’s Macon, Georgia, branch, and showed a natural talent for business by more than doubling the office’s revenue in his first year. (A&E Television) After a 1962 buyout of a competitor which placed Turner Advertising in a precarious financial situation Ted’s father committed suicide in 1963, leaving Ted to take over the company. From 1970 to 2001 Ted Turner either purchased or built several companies including, CNN,
In 1946, he founded a construction company and by the age of 35, was a millionaire. In about the 1950’s he started devoting over eight hours a day to reading the Bible. In 1959, he and two other men founded the Family Radio Station where he began preaching on the air. This network grew to over 140 stations across the world, reaching A...
´´ If one advances confident in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ’’ These words were spoken by Henry David Thoreau.Success is within the mind of the individual. A large portion of one´s life is spent working to become successful. People are told throughout childhood to work hard so they can grow up and achieve all of their dreams. But success takes many different forms. Different people have different interpretations of what success means to them. It does not matter how related they are to each other in certain áreas they always have a different point of view of what success really is. For some success is measured by social status and wealth
There is no concrete definition for success, and there is not a foolproof way to obtain it, but it is something many strive for. In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell explains, with examples of successful people throughout history, that hard work along with a little bit of luck and willingness to seize every opportunity is the only way to become successful. Malcolm Gladwell illustrates throughout the story external factors that are mostly uncontrollable and internal factors like hard work that are very controllable lead to these outliers and unimaginable success stories.
We all start someplace and for Robert Edward Turner III it started in Cincinnati, Ohio at the McCallie School. He was a National Forensics League member. (NFL) It was at this school he won the Tennessee debate championship. Robert Edward Turner was also call and what he is known as today as Ted Turner. His dad, Robert Turner II also known as Ed Turner, bought a billboard company he changed the name to Turner Advertising. Ted learned every aspect of the outdoor advertising business at his father’s insistence. He learned from maintenance to finance, but not all he did was work sailed his dinghy that his father gave him. “At age nine, he began sailing and soon developed a passion for sailboat racing. By age 11, he was competing in the junior regatta of the Savannah Yacht Club.” (Achievement). Ted’s father wanted him to attend Harvard, but his grades weren’t high enough for him to get in so Ted attended Brown University. After school, he returned home to his father’s business where his father gave him the assistant manager of Turner Advertising’s Atlanta branch position. Ted inherited the business at 24 when his father took his own life after the business took a turn for the worse and went into debt. By the end of the decade Ted had turned the business around into the largest billboard company in the southeast. (Achievement).
Success can be an extremely broad subject. There is an abounding amount of different views on what the “true” definition of success is. Personally, I believe that success is finding happiness. Success is waking up in the morning and not having to worry about whether or not the bills are going to be paid this month. Success is having a job that you enjoy going to every day. Success is having friends and family who love and support you. Success does not mean that one has to be exceedingly rich or have a lakeside mansion. As long as they are happy, they have succeeded in life.
During 2008 his life and dreams suffered a drastic turn. Even though he became the leader of Tesla Motors, the Tesla Motor stock crashed, and he suffered his third failure with the rocket they built at Space X. Ventures Beyond The Sky Imagine states that, “Musk was running out of money. The $180 million he once had in the bank from the sale of Pay-Pal, a company he co-founded, to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002 was about gone. Beyond his initial plans, Musk had put $100 million into SpaceX, $70 million into Tesla and $10 million in Solar City. Though on the edge of disaster in 2008, Musk wouldn't quit” (Deagon).
As Ted grew up he became a very attractive, smart and had an interest in politics. He was liked threw out his high school and performed very well in class room activities. Then soon after graduating high school in 1965, Ted joined the University of Puget Sound and became a very good student but there was a slit draw back for him because many of the students came from wealthy families and he felt very out of place. During his sophomore in 1966, he soon transferred to the University of Washington because of the fact that he felt out of place due to his finances. After three years of college he then dropped ou...
Success is not earning a fat juicy check at the end of each month, or being a part of a large social group filled with fraudulent people that appear as familiar faces. But it is a person discovering him or herself after they had been lost and establishing a sense of purpose that makes them fills them with a warm glowing sense of accomplishment. Success does not have one transparent definition, it has various meanings depending on what success means to the individual trying to achieve it. Success is surviving.
Over thousands of years people have been driven by success, but what is success? Success to me is the ability to perform at your highest level in the path in life that you take. I believe that if you are not driven to be the very best at the things you do then it is not a calling. There are plenty of opportunities in life and you should take everyone you get. Success is a word that is on a broad spectrum, there is no single definition to the word. I define what success is for me. There is no set image of success, success is also constantly changing. The word success means achieving what I want to do in life, and to prosper in the situations my life has put me in.
According to the Merriam- Webster’s Dictionary, success is defined as, someone or something that is successful: a person or thing that succeeds. Success could also be defined as, the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. It determines if you are satisfied with certain aspects of your life, for example, your appearance, your personality, your abilities and your relationship with others. Usually, people are very judgmental with themselves comparing themselves with others and making decisions about themselves based on the comparisons that they made. Most people feel bad about themselves from time to time. To become successful, you have to possess some factors that makes you stand out.
Success is within the mind of the individual. A large portion of ones life is spent working to become successful. People are told throughout childhood to work hard so they can grow up and make lots of money. But success takes many different forms. Different people have different interpretations of what success means to them. For some, success is measured by social status and wealth; for others success is determined only by the amount of happiness one feels.
Success is something we all wish to achieve and even though we have different definitions of success, we all want to success in different aspects of our lives. For some success, success is attaining an education, others it's getting a good job, for others it's being wealthy, and others to start and own a business while for others it's having a family of our own and seeing our children prosper. We all have different metrics of measuring success and we all have different goals, but it is part of human instinct to want success, to want to succeed in everything we do no matter how small or big. Success gives us a feeling of development and growth, a sense of gratification that we are no longer where we used to be, but rather
Meaning of success has become confusing. We live in the world that tells us that it is important to be rich rather than be happy. We all know examples of people who are famous and rich, but are very unhappy. For example comedian Dave Chappelle had his own TV show and became a famous and a rich person. Yet underneath he was very unhappy; He was so unhappy that he had to stop his show because he had a nervous breakdown from the pressure of being