Billion Quote by Ted Waitt

“Revenues were, according to well-informed sources, more than $550 million for 2009—up from less than $300 million in 2008. That represents a stunning growth…

— David Kirkpatrick

Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

“In 2011, the total world wealth1 was calculated to be $231 trillion, up from $195 trillion in 2010.2 Since we are almost 7 billion,…

— Luciano Floridi

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less…

— David Rolf

Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the…

— Gray Davis

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

— Michael Dell

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year,…

— Paul Hoffman

“... to undertake a gargantuan task: calculate the value of all the services provided by all the ecosystems, from the forest to the floodplains…

— Joe Roman

This was 2008, you know. The economy was falling apart, spiraling. And I was hosting a game in New York, and there was $5…

— Molly Bloom

“In addition to the human suffering that comes with the current way of working, the opportunity cost of the value that we could be…

— Gene Kim

“By 2012 the average income of the vast majority had shrunk to the equivalent of 45 weeks of 1973 income—a 13 percent decline to…

— David Cay Johnston

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

— Everett Dirksen