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:
“Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity—
Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!
Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The honest Man has, I know, that modest Desire of Gain which is peculiar to those who understand better Things than Riches; and I dare say he would be contented with much less than what is called Wealth in that Quarter of the Town which he inhabits, and will oblige all his Customers with Demands agreeable to the Moderation of his Desires.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)