Billions famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.
-- Ben Sherwood -
Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.
-- Bruce Braley -
Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
-- Carl Icahn -
There is inherent value in sharing a billion people are doing it.
-- Clara Shih -
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
-- Conrad Hall -
Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
-- Dalai Lama -
I climbed like a billion stairs... its not like I can take them two at a time.
-- Danny DeVito -
We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
-- David Cameron -
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
-- Dennis Hastert -
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
-- Donald Miller -
The greatest business icons-it's not that they were worth hundreds of millions, or billions or trillions of dollars, it's that they moved society forward.
-- Donny Deutsch -
You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.
-- Eike Batista -
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
-- Everett Dirksen -
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
-- Gary Hamel -
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
-- Geoffrey Canada -
Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.
-- George R. R. Martin -
There's 7 billion, 46 million people on the planet
-- George Watsky -
It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.
-- Gerald R. Ford -
I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
-- Jack Ma -
Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.
-- John Lukacs -
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.
-- Luke Ford -
I know that there are a billion girls out there that would kill to be in my position, and I never forget that.
-- Michelle Trachtenberg -
Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.
-- Nelly -
A billion dollars isnt what it used to be.
-- Nelson Bunker Hunt -
A billion saved is a billion earned.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine -
It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.
-- Paul Polman -
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?
-- Peter De Vries -
Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.
-- R. Scott Bakker -
It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
-- Rahul Gandhi -
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
-- Ray Bradbury -
Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.
-- Richard Gere -
Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
-- Rupert Murdoch -
There are 6 billion people in the world. It's hard to find the one person who's right for you.
-- Scott Caan -
A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.
-- Sean Parker -
We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.
-- Stefan Molyneux -
You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies literally beyond counting and this is only one universe.
-- Stephen R. Lawhead -
The first billion is a helluva lot harder.
-- T. Boone Pickens -
Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.
-- Thad Cochran -
I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.
-- Thomas Peterffy -
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
-- Travis Walton -
I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
-- Veerappa Moily -
Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
-- Vinton Cerf -
You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.
-- James Carafano -
Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.
-- Mosab Hassan Yousef -
Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.
-- Akbar Ganji -
What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across.
-- Janna Levin -
1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.
-- Jean Ziegler
