“A Billion dollars isn't what it used to be”
Nelson Bunker Hunt
“Advertising is "a ten billion dollar a year misunderstanding with the public.”
Chester L. Posey
“Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.”
Werner von Braun
“New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.”
Craig Kilborn
“We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.”
Everett Dirksen
“The cost of competing on the Strip has gone up. A billion dollars certainly doesn't get you a top-tier property.”
John Maxwell (financial analyst)
“Foreign investors in China remitted profits worth 250 billion US dollars to respective countries in the 1990-2004 period.”
Chen Jinhua