Definition of Billion

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Definition of Billion
	Billion According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration. Related Definitions: According, American, And, English, French, Method, Million, Numeration, Of, Or, See, The, Thousand, To

Billion Quotations

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.
Warren Buffett

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Jack Welch

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
Richard Dawkins

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
Dave Barry

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
Calvin Klein

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
Muhammad Yunus

Billion Translations

billion in French is milliard, trillion
billion in German is Billion
billion in Italian is miliardo
billion in Swedish is biljon

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