Billion Quotes
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.
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I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
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We are glad to see solid operational performance even though a much larger-than-expected goodwill write down was taken for the AOL and cable divisions, about $45 billion in total.
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Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.
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For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.
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Radio Astronomy has added greatly to our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the universe. The cosmic microwave background radiation, considered a relic of the explosion at the beginning of the universe some 18 billion years ago, is one of the most powerful aids in determining these features of the universe.
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I gotta tell ya, with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really, it's almost obscene.
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Shortly after Medicare was passed, Americans were told it would cost $12 billion in 1990. Actual cost? $98 billion. Americans were also told that the cost of Medicaid would be less than $1 billion in 1992. Actual cost? $17 billion.
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I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
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Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
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It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.
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It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.
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I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
