#billion

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#billion #count #dollars #you #your

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

— Paul Hoffman

#best #billion #dollars #europe #gross

I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#any #billion #concerns #country #debt

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#billion #came #coast #except #federal

In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#bring #budget #call #category #decade

I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#honestly #i #leaving #metallica #never

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#billion #four #infinity #know #mathematicians

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#day #dollars #half #less #living

You don’t have to apologize,” Treston said. “I know where I work, I know what I do to make a living, and I know it’s not the most respectable place in Vegas. But frankly, Chad, if you don’t mind my saying so, I think you have a lot to learn about good manners.” Chad blinked. “What do you mean?” Treston reached for his wine glass, finished off what was left to wash down the last forkful of chewy escargot, and said, “All I’m saying is you haven’t stopped harping about that blond, and I have to tell you it’s getting a little tired now. Seriously, man. It’s a little insulting, too.” He leaned forward, looked into Chad’s eyes, and held his hand. “Look, I know how hard it is for selfish men like you to understand empathy. Lord knows I’ve been with enough of them. ↗

— Ryan Field

#rakes #the-vegas-shark #men

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#barely #billions #declaring #go #harmony