#billion

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#i #lifetime #paid #taxes

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money. ↗

— Michael Porter

#behind #billions #business #decades #ineffective

We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide. ↗

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

#bankers #being #billion #doctors #drivers

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#back #billion #go #invented #keep

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

— Scott Thompson

#different #different ways #filled #five #looking

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#attempts #billion #came #doubt #either

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

— Everett Dirksen

#about #billion #here #pretty #real

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#care #china #i #lose #out

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#china #got #hit #hit record #know

Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#happy people #i #know #look #people