When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new vertical that will sort of move the dial. And there's this sort of weird effect where the larger a company gets, the harder it is to come up with any new product that really moves the dial.
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.
I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.
Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.
It's hard to make small investments when you're a billion-dollar fund.
The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering.
That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along.
