Billionaire Quotes - Page 9

• Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.

  J. P. Morgan

  Astrology, Needs, Millionaire

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• Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

  Sara Blakely

  Inspiration, Resilience, Trying

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• We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or kids or education. We're not going to privatize Social Security - in fact, we're going to strengthen it. We're going to provide quality education for every kid in America, from preschool through college. We have to take on these corporate leaders who are selling out the American people, whose allegiance is now much more to China than it is to the United States. If we have the courage to take these people on, I think we can overwhelm George W. Bush and his friends.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, Cutting, Thinking

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• Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Political, Oligarchy

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• I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.

  Ted Turner

  Motivational, Life Lesson, People

  "Ted Turner Speaks: Insights from the World's Greatest Maverick".

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• No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!

  Steven Weber

  Art, Mean, Exercise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Way, Helping

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• The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

  Mickey Rourke

  Good Relationship, Designer

  "Rourke steady". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2009.

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• Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.

  Mark Skousen

  Giving, Promise, Bills

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• People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Tired

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

  Peter Diamandis

  Eight, Earth, May

  "Asteroid Impacts Over Russia - Another Larger Rock Passing Very Close to Earth" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

  Eric Alterman

  Jobs, Parent, Example

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• These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking about millionaire and billionaire executives at pharmaceutical companies, these are people with something to lose if threatened with jail. Frog-march them out of their door in suburbia, handcuffed and surrounded by DEA officers, with their children and neighbours watching.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Children, Dope, Doors

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Mean, Thinking, Nuts

  "Stephen Baldwin: 'McCain can bring change'". Interview with Sarika Dani, www.today.com. October 24, 2008.

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• I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

  Tyra Banks

  Fashion, Years, Here I Am

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• During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

  Thomas Frank

  Average, People, Entering

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• What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

  Michael Bloomberg

  Feet, President, Doe

  "Bloomberg’s Day" by Micah Sifry, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.

  Bono

  Boys, Way, Untouchables

  "Bono, Facebook IPO: U2 Singer To Become The World’s Richest Musician (UPDATED)" by Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

  Richard Branson

  Life, Success, Business

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, America, Long

  "Be Careful What You Cut" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2012.

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• When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Funny Inspirational, Business

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• Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Retirement, Risk, Valleys

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• Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces haunting music and exquisite textiles? The one that invented the caste system and celebrates the genocide of Muslims and Sikhs and the lynching of Dalits? The country of dollar billionaires? Or the one in which 800 million live on less than half-a-dollar a day? Which India?"

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Lynching, Land

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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