Billions Quotes · Page 18

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was…

— John Spratt

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

— Anonymous

There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good…

— Frederick Lenz

America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own.

— Kellyanne Conway

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

— Eric Alterman

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

— Liza Campbell

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use…

— Howard Rheingold

Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he…

— Jay Leno

What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over…

— Thomas Berry

No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out…

— Sid Meier

The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals…

— James Cromwell

I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm…

— Craig McCaw

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look…

— Dean Koontz

When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's…

— Fred Armisen

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke…

— Drew Houston

There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the…

— Seth Shostak

People who have the courage to be individuals can usually think things through on their own and make sound decisions. They don't…

— Norman Vincent Peale

I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years…

— Ted Turner

Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a…

— Denis Hayes

If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her…

— Milan Kundera

The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a…

— Fritjof Capra

This is a living planet. Look around. Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Look beyond our solar system. Where else is there a place that…

— Sylvia Earle

The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of…

— Charles Segars

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with…

— Elon Musk

A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

— Deacon Jones

I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.

— John McCain

Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid…

— Benjamin Carson

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

— Paul Reubens

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

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

— Christopher Pike

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

— Norman Borlaug

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.

— Scott Thompson

Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Under Hillary Clinton, the world's largest ever arms deal was made with Saudi Arabia, [worth] more than $80 billion.

— Julian Assange

There are billions of people on this planet, and I cant help myself from thinking about just one¦.I miss you.

— Rashida Rowe

I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing.

— Michael Dell

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide…

— Rose George

For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving.

— Sarah Lacy

It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.

— Paul Polman