Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.
I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.
We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.
I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.
Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
Congress: Bingo with billions.
Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.
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