9 Lessons Vince McMahon Should Have Learned From Ted Turner

2. Understand When To Quit

Admittedly, Ted Turner wasn€™t given much of a choice when the AOL merger went through, and he was essentially sidelined in the company that he made. But that€™s life when you€™re the head of a publicly-traded company. To a certain extent, you€™re passing off your accomplishments and your business to other people - and you€™re no longer entirely the boss. Turner had to realise that his company would go on without him, and become happy in other areas - and now he€™s got his humanitarian ventures to keep him occupied and important. Vincent Kennedy McMahon needs to let go of WWE. He's no longer the firebrand that took the company national and created WrestleMania, and there€™s no reason that anyone should expect a seventy-year-old man to still be that guy. Of course he€™s out of touch. It would be weird if he wasn€™t. Incredibly, it appears that the company is in safe hands with his daughter and son-in-law. Those of us who lived through the post-Attitude Era period may still be somewhat stunned at the fact that Stephanie McMahon Levesque and Triple H are the best thing for the company and its fanbase, but it€™s the way it is. McMahon€™s company will survive and indeed thrive without him. God knows what retirement, or semi-retirement would be like for the human perpetual motion machine. It's high time he found out.