#billionaire

There were 14,000 people at the rally for the president in Ohio. There were another 8,000 people in Virginia. If all 22,000 of those people opened their wallets and gave $1,000 each, that would be less than one donation from a billionaire to the super PACs. And that's why he's in for the fight of his life. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#billionaire #donation #each #fight #gave

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India. ↗

— George Soros

#control #government #greed #power #age

He was just beautiful. She'd never known a man could be beautiful, but he definitely was. ↗

— Emily Jane Trent

#erotic-romance #erotica #love-story #romance-sexy #romances

Beauty isn’t all about tooth whiteners, hard abs, and hundred-dollar lipstick. Beauty is about growing old together, remembering when together, laughing together. If my picture disgusts you, fine. Go look at the faces of women who named a price you can buy them for. I’m not the kind of woman who will ever be for sale, and shame on you for not expecting more from a woman, or from yourself. ↗

— Virginia Nelson

#contemporary-romance #romance #beauty

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#business #business partners #businesses #could #difference

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#billionaire #brains #brainy #broker #cries

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #like

Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments. ↗

— Roger Lowenstein

#money #philosophy #warren-buffett #change

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire. ↗

— Howard Hughes

#deranged #i #millionaire #paranoid

Jews are estimated to be less than 1% of the world's population yet approximately 25% of the world's billionaires are Jewish. ↗

— H.W. Charles

#jewish-millionaires #jewish-wealth #money #money