Famous Quotes & Sayings

The big picture is that there's a billion (mobile) phones worldwide and an increasing percentage of them are playing back video.

The big news really is that, because flash is an integral part of cellular phones and those are shipping in such high volume, the next billion units is only going to take two years to get to.

It's better for the environment, we get to keep billions of dollars cycling through our economy instead of going to countries that aren't particularly friendly to us and by the way, it's cheaper,

It's interesting that in a nation of 1.2 billion people, we're talking about a labor shortage. It's important to realize that it's a relative situation.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

Michael Leunig

The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.

This legislation will ensure that Texas is at the forefront of the telecommunications industry, bringing thousands of new jobs and billions of economic investment to our state.

This is what we looked like 4.5 billion years ago. Comets haven't changed since then.

They're doing phenomenally on the bottom line. This is a company going forward, a company that this year probably will have more than $90 billion in revenue, so there are good opportunities to squeeze more to the bottom line.

They're all solid companies. Several have revenues in excess of $1 billion and all are profitable.

John Hostettler

They're not going to have New Orleans pumped-dry until the middle of October? What are we going to spend $52 billion on, between now and October, with a city flooded?

Chuck D.

There's billions of dollars on the table in Coyote Valley.

If the universe was finite, and had a size of about 4 billion to 5 billion light-years, then light would be able to wrap around the universe, and with a big enough telescope we could view the Earth just after it solidified and when the first life formed. Unfortunately, our results rule out this tantalizing possibility.

Carlos Slim

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

If you get rid of $800 billion in economic activity, that's a big hit on the U.S. economy.

If you as legacy carrier are losing billions of dollars and your partner is making hundreds of millions of dollars obviously there's a disconnect that needs to be addressed.

Steve Allen

If you could make a car engine that was as efficient as one of these black hole engines you could get about a billion miles per gallon of gas. In anyone's book that would be pretty green.

If you try to undertake what is a $5 billion problem here on a month-to-month basis, it's going to take a long, long time at that rate to see significant results. It's important to us to know how much we're getting and for how long.

In the world in which we live today, everybody needs a foundation in math and science. What we're talking about is the success of our next generation. We face the fundamental fact -- we won the Cold War, capitalism prevailed, and we have 3 billion new competitors.

Patrick J. Kennedy

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

In the future 15 years, the population of China will reach 1.46 billion and the GDP will double, the pollution load will increase by four to five times,

Instead of money being spent on infrastructure projects, it has been spent propping up the pension system to the tune of billions of marks.

Instead of worrying about who gets credit for our recent successes, maybe these Washington Democrats should be spending more time preventing the federal government from shortchanging us by $2 billion on hurricane relief.

Insurers benefited from the rising short-term interest rates to generate $40.7 billion on their investment portfolio in the first nine months of the year.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

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

In our view, the remaining $2.7 billion of firm value is an implicit valuation for the rest of the product categories. We find it hard to understand why segments such as consumer electronics and toys should be valued at such a high level.

Fidel Castro

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

Investors are disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.

Investors were disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.

In the next five years we will most likely spend $1.5 billion to $2 billion in Brazil on development. We will be creating a footprint that is very strong.

Jacob Lew

In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.

In that $1.2 billion spent, that's not just going to salaries or studio rentals, it's going to purchases that are very wide-based.

Peter Thiel

If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000.