“Sometimes all you need is a billion dollars”

“Sometimes all you need is a billion dollars” (or “Sometimes all you need is 500 million dollars”) is a jocular saying about money that has been printed on many images. “Sometimes, all you need, is 56 million dollars” was posted on Twitter on February 4, 2011.
   
“Sometimes, all you need is a billion dollars” was posted on Twitter by Jay on January 15, 2012.
 
“Sometimes all you need is $500 million dollars” was posted on Twitter by God on September 7, 2013.
 
     
Twitter 
Randall Graham‏
@randallchannel
Sometimes, all you need, is 56 million dollars.
1:04 PM - 4 Feb 2011
 
Twitter
Jay‏
@themodestninja
Sometimes, all you need is a billion dollars.
1:15 PM - 15 Jan 2012
 
Twitter
God‏
@TheTweetOfGod
Sometimes all you need is $500 million dollars.
4:18 PM - 7 Sep 2013
 
Twitter
Eduardo L.‏
@LEDDZ
I couldn’t agree more “@TheTweetOfGod: Sometimes all you need is $500 million dollars.”
4:19 PM - 7 Sep 2013
 
Twitter
Tony Maguire‏
@filmbizpro
Sometimes…just sometimes…all you need is a billion dollars.
4:14 PM - 14 Oct 2013
 
Facebook
Unlike Pluto
December 8, 2014 ·
Sometimes all you need is 500 million dollars
 
Twitter
Babe Walker‏
@whitegrlproblem
Sometimes, all you need is a billion dollars. #whitegirlproblems
3:27 PM - 24 Feb 2015
     
Google Books
The Billionaire Bachelor
By Jessica Lemmon
New York, NY: Hachette Book Group
2016
Pg. ?:
She turned the mug and read the message aloud. “‘Sometimes all you need is a billion dollars.’”
 
Me.Me
SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS $500 MILLION DOLLARS MONEY CAN’T BUY YOU HAPPINESS BUT IT CAN BUY YOU AN OSTRICH AND UNLIMITED PROSCIUTTO AND A BEAUTIFUL MARBLE SHOWER WITH A SEAT IN IT TO CRY ON MEME
MEMES SHOWER 🤖 OSTRICH MARBLE CRY SEAT PROSCIUTTO NEEDED MILLION DOLLARS ONS SOMETIME MONEY CANT BUY CRY ON UNLIMITED
FOUND @ 222684 LIKES ON 2016-11-17 01:39:48 BY ME.ME
SOURCE: INSTAGRAM
 
Twitter
SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A BILLION DOLLARS MEME
DANK 🤖 BILLION BILLION DOLLARS
FOUND @ 21 LIKES ON 2016-12-31 18:39:19 BY ME.ME
SOURCE: FACEBOOK
 
8 April 2017, The Texas Tribune (Austin, TX), “The House takes up the budget: a day in pictures” by John Jordan:
State Rep. John Zerwas, R-Richmond, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, lays out the budget with an abacus as a prop. The plaque reads, “Sometimes All You Need Is A Billion Dollars.” Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune