1 Billion Quotes

#1. I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

Yuri Milner

#2. The Church is a collection of poor sinners. The Catholic Church is a collection of 1.1 billion very poor sinners. That's a lot of original sins, and it is no wonder we have trouble.

Benedict Groeschel

#3. Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

Vint Cerf

#4. 1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.

Jean Ziegler

#5. It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

Naveen Jain

#6. In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

Elton Gallegly

#7. With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

Robin Hayes

#8. I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing.

Michael Dell

#9. In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

Ban Ki-moon

#10. SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Elon Musk

#11. 1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.

Mark Bittman

#12. We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

Tom Allen

#13. It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.

Paul Polman

#14. More than 1 billion people do not have access to sufficient water to meet their basic sanitation needs.

Jane B. Reece

#15. It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

Dennis Hastert

#16. In one month, the Small Business Administration does $1 billion of loans and guarantees for businesses; many of those are women-owned businesses.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#17. Women spend 80 cents of every dollar in the marketplace. We could be the most powerful force for economic and environmental change in the 21st century if we focused our money where it could make the biggest difference. If a million people did that, it would have a $1 billion impact.

Diane MacEachern

#18. It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.

Mike Krieger

#19. With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.

Ben Parr

#20. We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

Albert Wynn

#21. You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

Niklas Zennstrom

#22. It took us months of buying all the Coke stock we could to accumulate $1 billion worth - equal to 7% of the company. It's very hard to accumulate major positions.

Charlie Munger

#23. Revenues were, according to well-informed sources, more than $550 million for 2009 - up from less than $300 million in 2008. That represents a stunning growth rate of almost 100 percent. The same sources say that the company could exceed $1 billion in revenue in 2010.

David Kirkpatrick

#24. I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

Naveen Jain

#25. Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.

Daniel Yergin

#26. The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

Todd Akin

#27. The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.

Annalee Newitz

#28. Blackwater had won $1 billion in "diplomatic security" contracts through the State Department alone.81

Jeremy Scahill

#29. According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens.

Ann Coulter

#30. Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.

Li Peng

#31. I think there are a lot of companies that are staying private longer. Much more of their growth is happening while they are on the private side. So their valuations are hitting $1 billion while they are still private more often.

David Sze

#32. I was living in a house with five guys, eating their leftovers when they weren't watching. I went from that to having $1-billion-plus on paper.

Jeffrey Skoll

#33. Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

Peter Diamandis

#34. Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world - somewhere between India and the United States. Who's sending missionaries to that country? Who's planting churches there?

Phil Cooke

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

Jason Newsted

#36. In the early 1990s, Donald Trump was nearly $1 billion in debt personally and $9 billion in debt corporately. An interviewer asked him if he was worried. He replied, "Worrying is a waste of time. Worrying gets in my way of working to solve these problems.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#37. Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue.

John Larson

#38. I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.

Maurice Strong

#39. For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Bernie Sanders

#40. Blackwater USA has already taken in more than $1 billion from the public coffers. All in all, that's not a bad take for Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a Naval Academy dropout who served less time under the colors of the nation, in uniform, than my most recent pair of boots.

Robert Bateman

#41. In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.

Doc Hastings

#42. The pinnacle of power in China is the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee, the tiny body that sets policy for the nation's 1.4 billion citizens.

Tom Clancy

#43. If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.

Barack Obama

#44. Mauna Kea is a known biologically hostile work environment and one can only wonder why the
astronomy community is investing 1.4 billion dollars to build the world's largest telescope there.

Steven Magee

#45. The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.

Michael Enzi

#46. There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.

Reza Aslan

#47. The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.

Nancy Gibbs

#48. I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.

Yao Ming

#49. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#50. Consider these current rough estimates: Each day, we compose 154 billion e-mails, more than 500 million tweets on Twitter, and over 1 million blog posts and 1.3 million blog comments on WordPress alone. On Facebook, we write about 16 billion words per day. That's just in the United States:

Clive Thompson

#51. Not so long ago the Earth numbered 2 billion inhabitants, i.e., 500 million men and 1.5 billion "natives." The first possessed the Word, the others borrowed it.

Frantz Fanon

#52. There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.

P. J. O'Rourke

#53. There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

Paul Cellucci

#54. One of the unique features of China is that, notwithstanding the fact that it has a population of 1.3 billion, around 92% regard themselves as Han Chinese. This is quite different from the world's other most populous countries, such as India, the U.S. and Indonesia, which are ethnically diverse.

Martin Jacques

#55. Twitter is currently valued at $8 billion, or $1 for every hour it has wasted.

Andy Borowitz

#56. Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state,

Carole Keeton

#57. The issue is: $1 trillion or $2 trillion is a lot of money. If our objective is to have stability in the Middle East, secure oil, or extend democracy, you can do a lot of democracy buying for this sum. To put it in context: The whole world spends $50 billion a year on foreign aid.

Joseph Stiglitz

#58. I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not
realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.

Edward Abbey

#59. Restaurant industry sales in 2011 are estimated to have reached a record high of $604 billion, up 3.6 percent from 2010. Restaurant employment grew 1.9 percent in 2011, with some 230,000 jobs added, the strongest gain in five years.

David Sax

#60. It takes time to change established mindset. It is a difficult task. But we have five years. This is not about Modi ... Modi is only one of its 1.2 billion people ... This is a people's task.

Narendra Modi

#61. The vast size of the available workforce in the emerging markets (1.3 billion people in China alone) means that labor costs will not rise above the $2 per hour threshold for decades. And, that is what we are competing against!

Frank Coyle

#62. Anybody who doesn't think that Hong Kong has to depend on the PRC (China) must be the biggest idiot on earth because you are talking about getting access to a 1.3 billion people market.

Gordon Wu

#63. According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

Walter E. Williams

#64. A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

Greg Walden

#65. You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year are all smart, the software that's gonna be most popular in those phones is gonna be software that's sold by somebody who doesn't make their own phones.

Steve Ballmer

#66. Google's colourful, playful logo is imprinted on human retinas just under six billion times each day, 2.1 trillion times a year - an opportunity for respondent conditioning enjoyed by no other company in history.

Julian Assange

#67. Self-certification may look like a small vision but there cannot be a greater decision for a Government to trust the honesty of the 1.25 billion people of the country.

Narendra Modi

#68. At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number ... is $1.2 trillion.

Judd Gregg

#69. In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.

Bernie Sanders

#70. A 2011 study by the Pentagon found that during the ten years after 9/11, the Defense Department had given more than $400 billion to contractors who had previously been sanctioned in cases involving $1 million or more in fraud.

James Risen

#71. 2.6 billion people live without toilets, and 1.6 billion without electricity. How is this possible?, you might ask. And that is a very good question.

Neale Donald Walsch

#72. The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct,

James Cameron

#73. You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people.

Alex Chiu

#74. Thank God there aren't 1.6 billion Trumps.

Edward Leigh

#75. By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#76. The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.

Eric Cantor

#77. In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

Pauline Hanson

#78. In 1700 the world was home to some 700 million humans. In 1800 there were 950 million of us. By 1900 we almost doubled our numbers to 1.6 billion. And by 2000 that quadrupled to 6 billion. Today there are just shy of 7 billion Sapiens. Modern

Yuval Noah Harari

#79. If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people,

E. O. Wilson

#80. In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

Fidel Castro

#81. He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.

David Kirkpatrick

#82. another billion deaths in the months that followed from mass starvation - from a mere 1.5-megaton regional nuclear war.

Richard Rhodes

#83. The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

Barbara Corcoran

#84. At $4 trillion, and roughly only $55 billion in equity, the Fed is leveraged about 77-to-1. They define the word leverage

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#85. Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

Pope Francis

#86. This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.

Zhu Rongji

#87. What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

Marty Meehan

#88. There are over 1.5 billion tweets generated every 2 days and over 30 billion pieces of content shared each month on Facebook (Kiss Metrics).

Bryan Kramer

#89. India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

Yusuf Hamied

#90. So you're an environmentalist; why are you killing a distant river with every bite? "Energy-intensive US factory farms generated 1.4 billion tons of animal waste in 1996, which ... pollutes American waterways more than all other industrial sources combined.

Anonymous

#91. The CIA was revealed to be spying in France, not for military purposes, but for corporate purposes. So this $30 billion spook agency is now at the disposal of these oligarchic corporate structures run by the 1%.

Jerry Brown

#92. The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

Cecile Richards

#93. The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

#94. Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#95. There are 1.3 billion human beings in the world who subsist on less than a dollar a day and have yet to make their first phone call, let alone send an email. Is

Francis Wheen

#96. It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.

Xi Jinping

#97. In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

Jane D. Hull

#98. But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China.

Alex Chiu

#99. In 1980, aided by $1.5 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. government and his own pitchman routines on television, Lee Iacocca brought Chrysler back from the abyss.

Carol Loomis

#100. Could Morgan Stanley please wire $1.2 billion to Deutsche Bank by the end of the day?

Michael Lewis