Quotes about billion
billion few left market open price relatively shares support ups
There will be relatively few shares sold, ... And UPS still has $1 billion left over from the IPO to repurchase shares on the open market to support the price if need be.
billions defend energy enron exactly folks free full gasoline high market prices product reaping today west
The same folks who today defend high gasoline prices as the product of a free market said exactly the same thing about energy prices in the West when we now know ... Enron was manipulating the market at full throttle and reaping billions in profits. Byron Dorgan
billion cost internet purchases sales states taxes
Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. Bill Delahunt
billion company expected faster growth overall percent relatively twenty
Twenty percent is significantly faster than we expected for the overall market, and 20 percent growth for a $32 billion company is relatively unprecedented. Michael Dell
billions broke covered dollars incentive invest lesson reliable riders trains
Twenty-five years ago, your trains broke down all the time, they were covered in graffiti and you had no incentive to use transit. Billions of dollars later, your trains are reliable and you get discounts the more you use the system. The lesson of all this is, if you invest in transit, the riders will come.
billions claimed close digest others reference vice
You may be able to collect, read and digest billions of reference about aliens and UFOs. Then you will find that most of them were claimed as hoax, others vice versa. Eventually, there is only one thing you want to do about it...the close encounter.
billion coming force happened imagine stretch water
You can imagine the extraordinary force that a billion gallons of water has coming over these levees, ... It happened on a seven-mile stretch simultaneously.
billion cost plan sales
When you plan for $3 billion in sales and you do $2.4 billion, you have a cost problem, John Todd
billions generate lift open outside pump
When you open up the borders, pump in billions from outside and lift international sanctions, it's going to generate growth.
billion entrusted money results taxpayers
What are the results and how much money have we saved? ... What are we getting for the $65 billion the taxpayers have entrusted us with?
billions dollars local merit primarily projects serve spend
We spend billions of dollars on projects with very little merit that serve primarily local interests.
billion diseases spend year
We spend $117 billion a year on obesity-related diseases and 300,000 Americans die, Tommy Thompson
billions businesses carolina dollars economic economy figure literally needs north opportunity position
There's literally billions of dollars of economic opportunity at stake. North Carolina needs to figure out how to position its businesses and economy to take advantage.
billion excited number trade
The trade number was a little better than expected, but $65.7 billion is nothing to get too excited about. Grant Wilson
billion debt further likely raise require
The transaction will likely require Watson to raise another $1 billion in debt and will further dilute its already industry-lowest margins. Megan Murphy
billions companies dollars enterprise global goods legitimate
The trafficking of counterfeit goods is a global enterprise that robs legitimate companies of billions of dollars in revenues every year.
billion earn good oil sitting
is kind of (the oil companies') good luck. They didn't do anything to earn it. And we're sitting here with a $150 billion bill from Katrina.
billion bit collapse growth last market percent sales
Is it $15 billion because of the collapse of the business-to-consumer market or it is $15 billion because sales growth slowed down by 50 percent in the last two quarters? Probably, it's a little bit of both, but I think it's more of the latter.
billion black cards consumers cross early friday given holiday last numbers retailers spending year
When all the numbers are counted, consumers could have given retailers an early holiday present, ... Last year Black Friday spending on our cards totaled $3.6 billion. We could cross $4 billion this year.
billion five million past people watch
We went from one million to 20 million subscribers in the past five years. That's great, but a billion people watch CNN. Steve Case
billions dollars drive household ourselves purchases share women year
We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales. Sandra Tsing Loh
billion generate great private sector turn
The private sector really is who we turn to put on the games, so we will have to generate about $1.7 billion from the private sector. We've got off to a great start.
billion insure jewelry throughout
We insure over $1.7 billion of jewelry throughout the country.
billion competition expect further internet technology
We expect further escalation of Internet technology competition in 2006 to $2.7 billion up from $1.9 billion in 2005.
billion capital money raise raised talking turning venture
We are turning away money at this point. We will raise about $25 billion this year. In talking with many venture capital firms, I think we could have raised $100 billion if we wanted that money.
billion excited fiscal run year
We're very excited about exiting the fiscal 1997 year at a $10 billion run rate,
billion concerned inside people
We're very concerned that this $3 billion is going to go to people who have inside status.
billion concerned inside people
We're very concerned that this $3 billion is going to go to people who have inside status.
billion comet far library low picked records stored sun using
We?re using this comet as a library that picked up records and stored them far from the sun at very low temperatures for 4.5 billion years.
billion cost estimated kyoto
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. Bjorn Lomborg
billion cost date highly hurricane largest likely
The largest catastrophe to date was 1992's Hurricane Andrew, which cost $20 billion to $23 billion. This is highly likely to be bigger, but how much bigger? No one knows. Steven Adler
billion bit cap companies compare geographic gives less market risk size smaller terms whereas
Their smaller size gives them less diversification, less geographic spread. So you have a little bit more risk with them. Those companies are about $16 billion market cap companies, whereas BP Amoco is a $200 billion company. So you can compare BP Amoco to a GE in terms of its size and diversification.
billion coming earnings franchise fully grown integrate merger midst months next numbers
Their earnings are coming out today. They're in the midst of merger activity, they have grown their franchise from $6 billion to $75 billion with acquisitions here in St. Louis. The ... numbers will tell us more in the next say 12 months as they fully integrate (different) franchises.