Wealth
With an estimated current net worth of around $5.8 billion, Broad was ranked by Forbes as the 173rd wealthiest person in the world in 2011. A major donor to Democratic political candidates, Broad is listed eighth on the Newsmeat Power Rankings list of "most famous and powerful Americans, whose campaign contributions result most often in victory".
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Famous quotes containing the word wealth:
“When the ice is covered with snow, I do not suspect the wealth under my feet; that there is as good as a mine under me wherever I go. How many pickerel are poised on easy fin fathoms below the loaded wain! The revolution of the seasons must be a curious phenomenon to them. At length the sun and wind brush aside their curtain, and they see the heavens again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What cannot stand must fall; and the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence of our right. An old farmer, my neighbor across the fence, when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: “No, ‘t is no use balloting, for it will not stay; but what you do with the gun will stay so.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)