#dollars

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#annually #dollars #energy #global #global warming

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#get #here #i #listening #million

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#dollars #down #dress #first #first lady

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#bill #bill gates #billions #college #companies

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it. ↗

— Scott McNealy

#because #charge #could #dollars #english

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#dollars #hundred #husband #income #least

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#dollars #fifty #fifty cents #hollywood #kiss

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#boyfriend #dollars #gritty #half #i

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#create #dollars #five #health #health care