“I have a billion dollars”
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45th President of the United States of America 1946Related quotes
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" Pogue’s Imponderables http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/pogues-imponderables/," The New York Times, October 18, 2007.
Harvey S. Rosen (1949) American economist
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“If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.”
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Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
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2000s
Variant: I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year… It's very character-building.
“There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
The Guardian [UK] (23 May 1992)