Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.
There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.
Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.
No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.
Big companies have no future …. There are no more advantages to big business. There are only disadvantages.
There's smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.
We do not believe in oversupplying the market. When you are a large company, you can afford to do it. When you are a small player, your flexibility gets reduced.
I've run businesses with thousands of people. I've run businesses with 10 people.
If you're a large organization, you may welcome a bit of regulation to keep the small guys out.
Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses.
Some people make their choice on size. I happen to not be a believer in that. I've often said, especially in an industry that's clamoring for growth, if I wanted size, I wouldn't have divested $8 billion of businesses.
I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.
The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business and in government.
I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.
We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.
Small businesses were slower than large businesses in adopting broadband. One of the reasons was they were concerned with putting their customer lists online or in the cloud.
IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you're talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.
Businesses have no place being 'too big to fail.'
Just because you're big doesn't mean you're going to be successful. The beauty of the motion picture business is that you can make a little movie like 'Driving Miss Daisy' or 'Rain Man' and go right through the roof. This business is still about creative juices, and size is no guarantee of that.
We have been told many times that we have become too big, but these are things that only someone who has no idea of the size of the competition can say. We are too small.
Small business is crucial. I think we talk so much about large businesses, they're well represented; they talk well for themselves. But most people work for small businesses; most wealth that stays in a community gets generated from them.
I'm not interested in having the second- or third-largest mall in Cincinnati.
Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.
