Quotes about billion
billions container device dollars guarantee nuclear port security spend star wars
I'll tell you where my constituents are. They want to know why we spend billions of dollars on Star Wars defense, and yet we don't have the security to guarantee that there's not going to be a nuclear device in a cargo container that comes to the Port of Seattle. Maria Cantwell
billion cents certainty difficult earnings expect market per predict quarter range remains revenue share short third thus volatile
In the short term, the market remains volatile and thus difficult to predict with much certainty, ... However, we expect third quarter revenue to be in the range of $8 billion to $8.4 billion ... and earnings per share of 7 cents to 9 cents.
billions commission dollars facility justify millions others possibly spending
How do you justify spending millions -- possibly billions of dollars -- in a facility that the BRAC Commission and others have said this is not a long-term answer?
billions buy government hotels investing link small spend system warning
Hotels are investing billions of baht (Thailand's currency) to rebuild, but they don't want to spend some 500 000 baht (about R77 714) more to buy a small warning system and link into the government system to warn their guests.
billion casualties dollars spending week
I don't know how many more casualties we're going to take. We're spending a billion dollars a week now (in Iraq), Chuck Hagel
billion dollars less rather seems six
I don't know how much it should be but it should be more rather than less is my point. Six billion dollars probably seems like to me to be the least amount. Pete Domenici
billions order
It's absurd, ... on the order of billions if not trillions to one. It's crazy.
billions colleges highly inadequate police require roads
It is reconstruction where the pledges are highly inadequate because reconstruction would require billions of dollars... for houses, infrastructure, hospitals, schools, colleges and police stations, roads and bridges,
billion sites views virtually
It's virtually impossible for most sites to do a billion page views in a month or even a year. Ross Levinsohn
billion dollars next reach reached took
It took us 23 years to reach the first billion dollars in revenues while we reached the next billion dollars in 23 months. Nandan Nilekani
billions cost fix sexy
It will cost billions to fix it, but unfortunately for environmentalists, it's not a very sexy problem.
billions dollars five rebuild
It will take billions of dollars to rebuild ... To reconstruct this will take five to 10 years, Jan Egeland
billion care hiv needs number poor sure treat year
The world needs $10 billion a year to treat those with HIV in the poor nations, to make sure that the number of new infections is going down dramatically, and to take care of orphans, Peter Piot
billion businesses carriers charge consumer consumers economical enjoy estimate european greater per services states surplus union united united-states welfare wireless
The use of wireless telecommunications services in the United States generated a consumer surplus of $157 billion per annum in 2004. Were U.S. carriers to charge at European Union levels, we estimate that the U.S. consumer surplus from wireless services would be halved, demonstrating that U.S. consumers and businesses enjoy substantially greater economical welfare from wireless services than their EU counterparts do.
billion cause delay lawsuits planned problems tactic using wants
They are using every stall tactic they can to postpone a ruling. I think MasterCard wants to delay the lawsuits because it could cause problems for their planned $2.5 billion IPO.
billion close needed projects realized remains room taking trend various whether within
They just realized that they just did not have the room within the budget. They needed close to $1 billion for various programs, and they just didn't have it without taking the projects out. But whether this is a trend or a one-year aberration remains to be seen.
billion bought companies comparing deal environment integrated quite room
They've integrated a lot of the companies they've bought quite well. But when you're comparing them to a $27 billion deal in a different kind of competitive environment where a lot of things can go wrong, you have no room for error. ... You can't be a gunslinger.
billions cost five grip
It's going to cost billions and take five to 10 years. But do we want to get a grip on this or not? I think we do. Tamar Jacoby
billions money sure
It's going to take billions of dollars, but I want to make sure that money is not wasted. Susan Collins
billion seen
It's going to be seen by, I'm told, as many as a billion people, which is tremendous,
billion century clinton defense dominant hard help increases life light pay president problems quality recruiting required secretary sharp strong worked year
It's required sharp increases in pay and benefits, and I think those have been appropriate, particularly in light of the recruiting problems that we were having a year ago, and the quality of life problems that have been eliminated. And I think that we've worked -- that Secretary (William) Cohen and President Clinton have worked very hard to increase defense investment, as I said, by 40 percent, from $43 billion to $60 billion a year ... That, also, has been justified, and will help us be as strong and dominant in the 21st century as we are now.
billion create solve
It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem. Naveen Jain
billions collects company customer directly dollars economics financial indeed investors needs reflect reporting statements trouble
For a company such as Merck to reflect as revenues in its financial statements billions of dollars of co-payments a customer makes directly to another company, the pharmacy, which the pharmacy collects and never remits to Merck, just does not reflect the economics of what is occurring, ... If that is what the SEC accepts, then investors are in trouble and our financial reporting indeed needs improving.
billion company
For a company doing about $19?$20 billion in sales, this is not a big float. Richard Hastings
billion community compare department fire largest level people providing realize services town yes
It's the largest town in the state, and yes it's expanding, and some people don't realize it's a community over 20,000 people with $2.5 billion in value, and if you compare our fire department to the level of services we're providing now, they're just not adequate.
billion cap cash cheap flow hard market radar slip stock
It's kind of hard for a $60 billion market cap to slip under the radar but the stock is cheap and cash flow is going up.
billion costs logical mercedes perfect smart worth
It's a logical tidying up of their portfolio. With 2 billion euros worth of restructuring costs for Mercedes and Smart this year, it makes perfect sense.
billion cap close due few gain market massive property
Google's extraordinary gain in market cap from nothing a few years ago to close to $US80 billion is more due to their massive misappropriation of intellectual property than anything else.
billion citizen dakota dependence dollar ethanol few foreign good great greater growing industry jobs known last less main news playing producers resulted role south street virtually
For the last few years we've known that the ethanol industry in South Dakota is playing an increasingly important role in the state's economy. It's a billion dollar industry and is growing exponentially. It's good news for producers and also great news for everyone on main street South Dakota - virtually every citizen - because it has resulted in greater wealth, more jobs and less dependence on foreign oil.
billion europe figure gas possible transit volume
For the moment, the only undisputed figure is the volume of possible gas transit to Europe - at least 110 billion cubic meters. Viktor Khristenko
billion cents confident earnings enter final fourth fully guidance month operations quarter range revenue share stated
As we enter the final month of the quarter, we are very confident in our previously stated guidance of revenue and EPS from operations in the fourth quarter in the range of $8.5 billion to $8.8 billion and earnings per share of 26 cents on a fully diluted basis,
billion certainly large lottery means nervous occasional players population reason states
A billion one-fifty (in sales) is certainly a challenge. The reason I'm not too nervous is you have such a large population, and a large population for a lottery means you have a lot more occasional players than most states do.
billion three
A billion just isn't what it used to be. There are now 793 billionaires. Three years ago there were only 476.