“If Rio Ferdinand is worth £120,000 a week, Cannavaro is worth a hundred million a day.”
Fabio Cannavaro (1973) Italian footballer
Eamon Dunphy, on Fabio Cannavaro's performance during Germany 2006 http://www.elevenaside.com/quoteoftheday/
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“If Rio Ferdinand is worth £120,000 a week, Cannavaro is worth a hundred million a day.”
Fabio Cannavaro (1973) Italian footballer
Eamon Dunphy, on Fabio Cannavaro's performance during Germany 2006 http://www.elevenaside.com/quoteoftheday/
“A small act is worth a million thoughts.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
2000-09, Meet the Most Interesting Person in China, 2009
“To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable.”
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (1929–2013) Canadian-American businessman
Quoted in Nancy Folbre, "Field Guide to the U.S. Economy" (2011), p. 15.
Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor
Source: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 39
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922–2016) 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations
In a speech in 1992. Cited in Awake! magazine, 1995, 9/8; article: How Was the World 50 Years Ago?
1990s
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
Variant: The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on the earth.
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Interview in the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996)
1990s
John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, (1964)
J. Paul Getty (1892–1977) American industrialist
As quoted in The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing (2003) by Pat Dorsey & Joe Mansueto, p. 234
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