Mark Cuban Quotes
When you have an almost unlimited amount of money, you can pay people to do almost anything.
Mark Cuban, Business Magnate, Comment on the Wealth Tycoons of 1896, The History Channel, The Men Who Built America, November 11, 2012
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See Noah Dietrich’s warning to Richard M. Nixon.
In Rhodes’ era money not only bought and influenced politicians but it enabled rich people and their companies to have their own armies and follow their own foreign policy. The British government has a long history of finding a proper balance of control over British wealthy men and her companies doing everything from enforcing the law to invading other countries. Without the companies, the management of the huge empire would have been too expensive and with them, the citizens and the government lost control of foreign policy. In the end, the latter was unacceptable and the British Empire was just too Expensive to maintain where so any nations wanted independence.
Describing the census debates and lawsuits regarding correct counting methodologies:
Mark Cuban is an American billionaire entrepreneur, television personality, media proprietor, and investor, whose net worth is an estimated $4.3 billion, according to Forbes, and ranked #177 on the 2020 Forbes 400 list. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Dallas Mavericks, co-owner of 2929 Entertainment, and chairman of AXS TV. He is also one of the main "shark" investors on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank.