"I find the fact that billionaires are quoted……" — Ben Elton
"I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous."
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37 Quotes by Ben Elton
Ben Elton has 37 quotes on this site.
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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word…
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I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get…
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You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even…
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People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little…
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty…
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth…
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We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can…
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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they…
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More Billionaire Quotes
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one of 101 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire…
— Stephen Baldwin
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I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And…
— Tyra Banks
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Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven.…
— Roseanne Barr
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What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?
— Michael Bloomberg
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When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?'…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just…
— Bono
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before…
— Warren Buffett
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As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If…
— Eric Alterman
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I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm…
— Marina Abramovic
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In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I'll be the richest man in the world. That's one of…
— LeBron James
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Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.
— J. P. Morgan
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Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
— J. P. Morgan
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