Billions Quotes

• Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Business, Dollars

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care.

  Andrew Lansley

  Fall, Blood, Years

  "An open, transparent NHS is a safer NHS" by Andrew Lansley, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Death, Sarcastic

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• We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos.  Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Spring, Long

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• Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

  Chris Chocola

  Agency, Government, Years

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• Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

  Eric Alterman

  Income, Pay, Cleaning

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• I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Legacy, Pay, Humanitarian

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• We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.

  Hank Green

  People, Challenges, Destroying

  Quote on the EcoGeek Mainpage, www.ecogeek.org.

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• Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Dollars, Enforcement

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• There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Love, Political, Majority

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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• Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Gambling, People, Population

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

  Paul Gillmor

  Hurt, Years, Oil

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• I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

  Oliver North

  Kids, Marine, Dollars

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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• Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

  Kirk Hammett

  Mean, Use, Solo

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• One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fighting, Guy

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• Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

  Ric Keller

  Years, Immigration, Cost

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• In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

  Jane D. Hull

  Running, Years, Twenties

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• Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

  Groucho Marx

  Birthday, Cute Life, Cells

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• Congress: Bingo with billions.

  Red Skelton

  Bingo, Congress

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• A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

  Everett Dirksen

  Funny, Money, Real

  "Farrell: Channeling Everett Dirksen" by Vince Farrell, www.cnbc.com. August 6, 2009.

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• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  Samantha Bee

  Gambling, Years, People

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• The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Years, Kyoto, Cost

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

  Dennis Hastert

  Jobs, Construction

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• I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Movie, Dollars, Actors

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